Getting Data In

How do I get data from my Cisco switch into Splunk?

jasonpoth
New Member

I am new to Splunk. I have set it up on my server, set up an indexer, and set up the logging in my switch, but I have no data. I do not see the option for Cisco:ios. How do you install the technology plugin?

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shaskell_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The best practice is to use a syslog aggregation tier and then use the Universal Forwarder on top of your syslog server(s). This gives you the most reliability, auto-load balances the data if you have a distributed setup and will not cause data loss if you need to re-start your Splunk infrastructure. I highly recommend you go this route.

If you don't have syslog servers then you can syslog directly to Splunk.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.1/Data/Monitornetworkports
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.1/Data/HowSplunkEnterprisehandlessyslogdata

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