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How to deploy Splunk default certificates in syslog-ng ?

dhavamanis
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We have generated default certs in Splunk for forwarder and its working fine with Splunk Universal forwarder. Can you please provide the steps to deploy the these certs in syslog-ng with configuration details.

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dhavamanis
Builder

We have found the setting here,

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Storm/Storm/User/Howtosetupsyslog-ng

added the certs like below config.

destination d_splunk {
tcp("splunkindexer.xyc.com" port(5140) tls(peer-verify(required-untrusted) ca_dir("/opt/syslogng/etc/syslog-ng/ca.d")));

};

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dhavamanis
Builder

We have found the setting here,

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Storm/Storm/User/Howtosetupsyslog-ng

added the certs like below config.

destination d_splunk {
tcp("splunkindexer.xyc.com" port(5140) tls(peer-verify(required-untrusted) ca_dir("/opt/syslogng/etc/syslog-ng/ca.d")));

};

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