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How to blacklist specific hosts so Splunk will not index their IIS logs in our "iis" index?

rakeshcse2
New Member

I have an index called "iis".

How can I blacklist some specific hosts so that Splunk would not process iis logs for these hosts?
I did something like this in inputs.conf, but this is not working:

# IIS Logs
[monitor://S:\logs\W3SVC*\*.log]
sourcetype = iis
index = iis
ignoreOlderThan = 30d
disabled = false 
blacklist = Server1,server2
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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Does each of your servers have Splunk forwarder installed and they have this monitor stanza to send the logs to your Indexer??

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rakeshcse2
New Member

Yes, each of the hosts have the forwarder installed and they are managed by a central server.

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

a blacklist is a regex, so you may want to do :

blacklist = (Server1|Server2)

beware this is also case sensitive.

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