splunk compatibility with QNX OS

[rashidmirza]

I would like to know if it is possible to monitor some text based log files, that reside on a system running QNX OS.
Would like to know what needs to be done.
Besides the IP of the machine, machine name, what other information do i need to have in order to establish a connection between the splunk server and QNX machine?
Would i need to install a forwarder on the QNX machine?

[dwaddle]

Currently, there is no Splunk forwarder binary that is compiled for the QNX OS. If QNX has some ABI-compatibility with either Linux or FreeBSD you might be able to use that for a forwarder.

I assume QNX has an NFS server capability. You could use NFS to mount the filesystem containing these logfiles onto a machine running Splunk (either the indexer or the forwarder).

[dwaddle]

Splunk does not know how to (natively) do FTP. You could possibly do this with a scripted input, if you are willing to do a nontrivial amount of coding. Alternately, you could try one of the FUSE filesystem overlays like sshfs / ftpfs / curlftpfs to make a "mount" out of the remote server. This may or may not work, depending on how well the FUSE overlay handles reasonable POSIX semantics that Splunk expects. I would also expect it not to be supported by Splunk support.

[rashidmirza]

Alternatively, would it be possible to ftp into the machine which is running QNX, provide necessary login credentials and specify the path where the files of interest reside?