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How to monitor two different sourcetypes in the same directory?

rubeniturrieta
Communicator

Hello to all,

I have a directory (logs/wsa/) and i'm sending a lot of files, but with two different sourcetypes (cisco:wsa:squid, and cisco:wsa:w3c)
I have an input for cisco:wsa:squid in inputs.conf, with /logs/wsa, but i need w3c too. How can I do this?,

Any help, will be very helpful

Thanks

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jayannah
Builder

You can refer to several examples for specifying inputs file with wildcards at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.1/Data/Specifyinputpathswithwildcards

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jayannah
Builder

You can refer to several examples for specifying inputs file with wildcards at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.1/Data/Specifyinputpathswithwildcards

esix_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You can create another monitor statement for that directory and set the sourcetype on the files. You can either use a regex for the file name or a combination of whitelists / blacklists. Refer to the spec file for inputs.conf:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.1/admin/Inputsconf

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