I am trying to send alerts from an appliance to a Splunk (HF) forwarder.
I have the appliance sending to Splunk's Rest API and I can see data pushed to tcp.port 8089 on the forwarder, but the index and sourcetype are not predefined on the HF. Is there a way for to send the data to the API and pass the index and sourcetype in the Post statement?
Thank you
If you want to send something from an appliance to a heavy forwarder, you might consider using the HTTP Event Collector (HEC) instead. HEC allows the data to include sourcetype, host and index - OR to let that default. If defaulted, the Splunk Admin can specify the index, etc. HEC works well with json data.
Using the HEC also means that the appliance does not need a Splunk username/password to connect. Instead it uses a token which is easy to control.
Here is the Introduction to the HTTP Event Collector.
Thank you for the reply.
I looked into the HEC with Fireeye before and we could not get it to work.
Do you know anyone who successfully setup a fireeye appliance NX, EX, or HX with HEC ?
Thank you
make sure there is no network connectivity issues, its pretty neat and simple.
try from CLI - http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/Data/UseHECfromtheCLI
how to set up - http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/Data/UsetheHTTPEventCollector