Getting Data In

After installing a universal forwarder on on Active Directory, how do I configure the account, logs to be collected, and the target indexer?

samehatef
Engager

Hi,

I tried to install the Universal Forwarder on Active Directory, but I did not get a window during installation phase to enter the username and password of the account to install with and which logs should be collected and what is the indexer to send these logs to.

How can I configure that after installation is done and I was not able to make these conf. during installation ?!

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renjith_nair
Legend

You can either do it from the web or editing the files
Refer to

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/installation/installonWindows

and

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Data/MonitorWindowsdata

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samehatef
Engager

I am asking about Universal Forwarder not Splunk itself ?!

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renjith_nair
Legend

Did you get a chance to look at the documentation mentioned above ?: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Data/MonitorWindowsdata

also

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Forwarding/Setupforwardingandreceiving

and

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Data/Configureyourinputs

Go thru these docs and refer to the sub links if necessary. It has all details about configuring your UF

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