Collecting data from Windows host without forwarder or domain group

[MHibbin]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone has had experience of collecting remote data for Splunk from a Windows device, where a forwarder can not be installed on the machine (due to support issues), and the device uses local authentication (i.e. is not in an AD domain group). Preferably not installing a third party file either.

Any thoughts on how this could be achieved? - obviously linux has native tools available to make this easy, apparently not with Windows.

Thanks in advance,

MHibbin

[Kate_Lawrence-G · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I can only think of 2 possible options:

1. Remotely monitor the box over WMI - http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.2/Data/MonitorWindowsdata#Configure_remote_event_log...
2. Or write a VB/Powershell script to get everything into a remote share that splunk can read it from there - http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Monitorfilesanddirectories

Thanks!

Kate

[MHibbin]

Thanks for the answer @Kate_Lawrence. However, as mentioned the windows machine does not use AD for authentication, WMI is out of the question (option #1).

We are going to look into sending the data using something like psftp/pscp to a windows forwarder and then have the EVTs/logs read/forwarded from there.