Deployment Architecture

Internal Logs from Forwarders not stopped

amulay26
Path Finder

I am trying to stop the splunkd.log and metrics.log from Windows Universal Forwarders.

Since it is a distributed environment, I deployed a small base app config to make this happen. My inputs.conf stanza looks like as follows:

[monitor://$SPLUNK_HOME\var\log\splunk\splunkd.log]
index = _internal
disabled = true

[monitor://$SPLUNK_HOME\var\log\splunk\metrics.log]
index = _internal
disabled = true

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

  • Akshay
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HiroshiSatoh
Champion

There is a possibility that settings are duplicated. How about excluding it as a black list?

[monitor://$SPLUNK_HOME\var\log\splunk]
index = _internal

※ Restart is okay?

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amulay26
Path Finder

Do you mean excluding at as a blacklist in outputs.conf?

I have enabled restart splunkd option while deploying it from deployment server.

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HiroshiSatoh
Champion

Set blacklist in inputs.conf. See blacklist setting in the default inputs.conf.

[blacklist:$SPLUNK_HOME\etc\auth]
Please add the setting in the same way.

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