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HF third party forwarding plus events whitelisting

SplunkExplorer
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Hi Splunkers,

my colleague and I are going to perform, this week, a change to forward data from Splunk HF to a third party system, in this case a UEBA product. In this scenario, we have to forward not all data, but only some subsets.
How to perform this is well explained in the official doc, here , so the purpose of my post is not to understand how to do this.

Reading the guide, I found some point that are not completely clear, so I kindly ask you to help me to understand.

  1. Paragraph "Forward a set of data"; inside the file 

 

transforms.conf​

 

we need to insert the following dest key:

 

DEST_KEY=_TCP_ROUTING

 

Do we need this because we are performing a tcp forwarding, as stated in the  file

 

outputs.conf

 

with stanza 

 

[tcpout]

 

? I mean, all times I need to perform a tcp forwarding, I must use always a stanza "tcpoutput" and I need a dest_key like the above one in case of data subsets? 

  •  What about if I need to perform a UDP forwarding? is it possible? If yes, How should I change stanzas in files?
    I mean, I can see that using syslog I could achieve this, but what about if I cannot/I don't want to use it?

 

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