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How to configure the input to index Task scheduler logs from a windows machine?

RashmiGowda
Explorer

Hello All,

can any one please help me out in how to index the Task scheduler logs from the windows box..??

Need to get the logs from "Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler%4Operational".

What will be the input the config for this..? can any one please help me..??

Will it be same as:

[WinEventLog://Application]

or something has to be added..?

Thanks in advance..!! 🙂

cmccririe
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You can configure Splunk Enterprise to monitor non-default Windows event logs. Before you can do this, you must import them to the Windows Event Viewer. Once the logs are imported, you can add them to your local copy of inputs.conf

To monitor Task Scheduler in Microsoft>Windows>TaskScheduler>Operational, right click on Operational and select properties. Use the "Full Name" to append to WinEventLog:// stanza.

In my case, I added the following stanza to inputs.conf
[WinEventLog://Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational]
disabled = 0
index = wineventlog
renderXml = false
start_from = oldest
checkpointInterval = 5

splunkreal
Motivator

awesome 🙂

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