Getting Data In

Could Splunk be configured to forward log data only after business hours?

JohnnyHua
New Member

Our remote offices only have limited network bandwidth. We would like to collect log data from these offices and only send the data after business hours. Could Splunk be configured to defer forwarding data until a specific period?

Thanks.

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kallu
Communicator

Or if you're worried about losing data because of log rotation or have problems starting/stopping all your forwarders, you can also close the receiver (indexer) during business hours. This will make forwarders to buffer data so make sure there is enough space available. Forwarders will resume transfer as soon as receiver is enabled again.

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kristian_kolb
Ultra Champion

I don't think so.

You'd have to make your own scheduling (cron, scheduler etc) to stop/start the forwarder, I believe.

This assumes that your data is logged to files that do not rotate too fast.

/K

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