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File Integrity Monitoring - Splunk 6

dgavic
Explorer

With FSChnage being deprecated in Splunk 5.0, what is the best method in Splunk 6 to monitor folder/file changes?

Thank you

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IT_Bullgod
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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

Hooshiar
Observer

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

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

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.

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IT_Bullgod
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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

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dgavic
Explorer

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

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