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In what path/directory do you find forwarded data from a universal forwarder on the Splunk indexer?

05500
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When we use universal forwarder, do you know where forwarded data is on the Splunk server?
Could you please tell me which path/directory for forwarded data?

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kml_uvce
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When you use universal forwarder then it reads data from files, script etc in inputs.conf file http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Admin/inputsconf
and it sends data to indexer given in outputs.conf file
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Admin/Outputsconf

data in indexer is stored in indexes in location $SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk in indexer
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Admin/Splunk-launchconf

kamal singh bisht

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kml_uvce
Builder

When you use universal forwarder then it reads data from files, script etc in inputs.conf file http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Admin/inputsconf
and it sends data to indexer given in outputs.conf file
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Admin/Outputsconf

data in indexer is stored in indexes in location $SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk in indexer
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Admin/Splunk-launchconf

kamal singh bisht
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