Is There a Forwarder for AS400?

[_gkollias]

Right now, I'm manually creating reports in Excel for AS400 data buy the hour. I'm looking for a way to automate this data, and, preferably, am looking to use Splunk.

I see that there is an app, but if there is no Forwarder for AS400 there will be a gap with getting the data in automatically.

Is There a Forwarder for AS400?

Thanks In Advance!

[_gkollias]

Great. Thank you both for the info!

[ShaneNewman · Accepted solution]

We do what @kristian.kolb said. The data we needed from the AS400 is log based, we just setup a script to forward the data from the AS400 to a port that we listen to on a heavy forwarder.

[ShaneNewman]

http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/Dynamically-transfer-files-via-FTP

This is the script we started with.

[_gkollias]

Is it a python script you use to forward the data?

[kristian_kolb]

No, there is no forwarder for AS400.

Perhaps it's possible for you to export the log files by some means (scp, ftp, sftp, syslog, mounting a share and writing logs there). That way you can have a forwarder monitoring the location where the files get written, and send it to Splunk.

[_gkollias]

Also, if someone has another solution, I'm open for ideas