How do I define a stanza that applies to all stanzas in the same inputs.conf file?

[neiljpeterson]

I could have sworn it was [] but that did not seem to work, nor did [*]

I do not want to use [default] because I don't want to change all inputs on the host, just the ones in a given file.

I could swear I've seen this done, and it should be easy but I searched and searched to no avail.

Please help!

[yannK · Accepted solution]

This is not the way it works, they are no notion stanza limited to a single inputs.conf or a single app.

The parameter are specific to their specific stanza.
The only exception is the [default] that is for all stanza (in all the apps)

Maybe are you confused with the props.conf that may overlap.

See the way splunk configuration merges, and use btool to verify :

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Wheretofindtheconfigurationfiles
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Troubleshooting/Usebtooltotroubleshootconfigurati...

[neiljpeterson]

Oh. Well then. 😕