With FSChnage being deprecated in Splunk 5.0, what is the best method in Splunk 6 to monitor folder/file changes?
Thank you
The term Deprecation is misleading many of our customers. The fact remains - Splunk continues to maintain a file integrity checking feature through ver 5 and into the current version. See the link below:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0/Data/Monitorchangestoyourfilesystem
Hello
The link is for version 6.0 and no longer exists.
"http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0/Data/Monitorchangestoyourfilesystem"
You can use this link instead:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.2.2/Data/Monitorchangestoyourfilesystem
Although the contents of this document did not match the solution I wanted
In the SIM solution of ManageEngine company, it is possible to monitor a folder that has been Shared in such a way that if a file or folder is created, edited, renamed or deleted, it shows by which user and at what time and from which IP It happened.
I am looking for such a solution in Splunk
1. It's a veeeeeery old thread (over 10 years since last post)
2. Monitoring changes to filesystem is a completely different issue than logging changes on a file sharing platform (regardless of whether we're talking NFS, CIFS, DAV...). First thing would be to make sure that the service itself can and will log relevant data.
The term Deprecation is misleading many of our customers. The fact remains - Splunk continues to maintain a file integrity checking feature through ver 5 and into the current version. See the link below:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0/Data/Monitorchangestoyourfilesystem
I did find this write up in the docs section, and this helped get me going in the right direction.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0/Data/MonitorfilesystemchangesonWindows
I am always open for more suggestions, or an easier way to do this.
Thank you