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How to disable processes run frequently by Splunk universal forwarder?

lrhazi
Path Finder

I see that these commands are executed every minute:

splunk-powershell.exe
splunk-winprintmon.exe
splunk-regmon.exe
splunk-netmon.exe
splunk-admon.exe
splunk-MonitorNoHandle.exe

The first one actually twice per minute.

Is there a way to disable these? are these some scripted inputs? I cannot locate them in the config.

I tried adding this for example to my config, but did not seem to change the anything:

[WinNetMon]
disabled = 1
[WinPrintMon]
disabled = 1
[WinRegMon]
disabled = 1

lrhazi
Path Finder
C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin>.\splunk version
Splunk Universal Forwarder 6.5.1 (build f74036626f0c)
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lrhazi
Path Finder

I did add Splunk_TA_windows app, but then realized that even if I remove it and restart the service, these programs continue to run just as frequently....

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mattymo
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

yeah it looks as if the process spins up just to realize it doesn't have to run.

- MattyMo
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lrhazi
Path Finder

That would makes sense indeed. Thanks.
I hope someone figured out how to disable this behavior...

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