How can I get Windows Events forwarded to a Splunk Enterprise Instance I just set up on a different laptop?
Thank you very much
Install Splunk Universal Forwarder on the laptop. Configure outputs.conf to point to your indexer. Configure inputs.conf to send your windows events. That's it.
outputs.conf
inputs.conf
very general steps here: open relevant ports on both computers, splunk default is 9997 make sure you can telnet between both laptops on that port install splunk on both (you can install only universal forwarder on data source but to make it easy install the full version) using the gui, configure receiving on the target http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.1/Forwarding/Enableareceiver using gui configure outputs on the source http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.1/Forwarding/EnableforwardingonaSplunkEnterpriseinst... tell the source which files you would like to monitor good luck hope it helps
