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I have been racking my brains and have searched the internet over multiple time and can't find a resolution to this issue. I have Splunk running on a Windows 2K3 server and want to monitor 4 directories on a remote Window 2K machine. The W2K machine is NOT part of our Active Directory. I haven't been able to find a username/password in Splunk to specify for the monitor. I have tried a UNC and a mapped drive (S:). Neither seem to work. What is the trick for monitoring log files on a remote windows machine?
[monitor://\172.17.1.5\System3\system341] disabled = false followTail = 0 host = ogdsystem3P whitelist = .log$
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The best way to do this is to install the SplunkLightForwarder and monitor the files locally and then send them to a remote Splunk server.
Enable Forwarding: http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/Enableforwardingandreceiving
Monitoring files and directories using the CLI: http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/MonitorfilesanddirectoriesusingtheCLI
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is this resolved? if so, how?
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The best way to do this is to install the SplunkLightForwarder and monitor the files locally and then send them to a remote Splunk server.
Enable Forwarding: http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/Enableforwardingandreceiving
Monitoring files and directories using the CLI: http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/MonitorfilesanddirectoriesusingtheCLI
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I found that the splunkd service was running as a local system account and not a domain user. Once I changed the service run as user to a domain account, Splunk was able to pull all the servers.
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