Help with Windows Print Server admin log

[tomtom0030]

The print server OS is Windows Server 2019

I would like to get PrintService-Admin log to Splunk.

I tried the following in the input.conf of Universal Forwarder in print server.

[WinEventLog://Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Admin]
disabled = 0
index = winps

Which is found in https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Microsoft-Windows-PrintService-Operational-Logs/m-p/...

But I cannot find any events from the index.

The log is enabled in the server, which is under Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > PrintService

I also tried to set the data input from web console to monitor the log file in folder: C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs

With RegEx:

Microsoft\-Windows\-PrintService.+\.evtx

So i can get

Microsoft-Windows-PrintService%4Admin.evtx

AND

Microsoft-Windows-PrintService%4Operational.evtx

But also, no event is shown for the index.

Hope somebody can help with this.

Thanks

[PickleRick]

1. You can't get events directly from evtx files so don't even bother trying 😉 But seriously - UF uses system calls to query eventlog channels so no direct reading from the files is involved.

2. Are you getting _any_ eventlogs from this UF?

3. What user does your splunkd.exe run with? Did you adjust ACLs on the eventlogs? Did you grant the user with proper privileges?