Getting Data In

Can the hosts in Splunk be tagged with metadata to describe their function?

shocko
Contributor

Hi guys, I'm a very intermittent user of Splunk Enterprise 8. I tend to build dashboards for a team to display on their floor and then walk away for 6 months until a new use case comes up. Recently had to do a migration of 200 forwarders from an old Splunk 6 instance to a new Splunk 8 one. I spent a huge amount of time checking with sysadmins what the role of various hosts was (i.e. what role the actual server was i.e. web server, DB server etc.).

So my question is:

- Can the hosts in Splunk be tagged with metadata to describe their function?

Labels (1)
0 Karma
1 Solution

harsmarvania57
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi,

You can do configuration on forwarder like given below in inputs.conf

[default]
_meta = server_type::webserver

 And on Search Head fields.conf like

[server_type]
INDEXED = true

View solution in original post

harsmarvania57
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi,

You can do configuration on forwarder like given below in inputs.conf

[default]
_meta = server_type::webserver

 And on Search Head fields.conf like

[server_type]
INDEXED = true
Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

.conf24 | Registration Open!

Hello, hello! I come bearing good news: Registration for .conf24 is now open!   conf is Splunk’s rad annual ...

Splunk is officially part of Cisco

Revolutionizing how our customers build resilience across their entire digital footprint.   Splunk ...

Splunk APM & RUM | Planned Maintenance March 26 - March 28, 2024

There will be planned maintenance for Splunk APM and RUM between March 26, 2024 and March 28, 2024 as ...