Getting Data In

Is there a config available that would push out the same format as Snare from a Heavy Forwarder?

CletisNPT
Explorer

Is there a config available that would push out the same format as Snare from a Heavy Forwarder? i.e. UniversalForwarder->HeavyForwarder->ForkTo:

  1. Native windows log gets pushed to the indexer in it's original format from the Universal Forwarder.
  2. A copy has the Snare transform applied and pushed out to a third party syslog server.
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CletisNPT
Explorer

I'm sure there's a way to do it with the transforms and SEDCMD. Was just curious if anyone had accomplished it yet.

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nickhills
Ultra Champion

You cant reformat the data which would be sent over a raw socket with a transform - it would always be sent as a 'Splunk Formatted' message, but with a little bit of netcat/grep/awk/sed fun you could probably get the data into any format you like - but probably a PITA!

I have just done a very quick google, and it seems that snare can accept syslog messages so this seems like the way to go.

in your outputs/conf

[syslog]
defaultGroup=syslogGroup

[syslog:syslogGroup]
server = <your syslog server>:514

I think thats all it takes!

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nickhills
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nickhills
Ultra Champion

You cant reformat the data, however you can send a copy of the raw event via a TCP socket, or alternatively as Syslog.
I am not familiar with Snare, but it sounds like the second option would be most appropriate for you.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.1/Forwarding/Forwarddatatothird-partysystemsd

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