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Problem blacklisting single subdirectory

benme
Engager

I have universal forwarder 4.2.4 installed on a Windows 2008 server. I have it monitoring several directories, but I want to blacklist a single subdirectory, so all files in that subdirectory are ignored. I've tried the following in the inputs.conf file, but files in the subdirectory continue to be processed.

[monitor:///$WINDIR\MyDirectory]
blacklist = MySubDirectory

[monitor:///$WINDIR\MyDirectory]
blacklist = \MySubDirectory

[monitor:///$WINDIR\MyDirectory]
blacklist = \MySubDirectory\

[monitor:///$WINDIR\MyDirectory]
blacklist = \MySubDirectory\*

[monitor:///$WINDIR\MyDirectory]
blacklist = \\MySubDirectory

[monitor:///$WINDIR\MyDirectory]
blacklist = \\MySubDirectory\\

[monitor:///$WINDIR\MyDirectory]
blacklist = \\MySubDirectory\\*

[monitor:///$WINDIR\MyDirectory]
blacklist = /MySubDirectory

[monitor:///$WINDIR\MyDirectory]
blacklist = /MySubDirectory/

[monitor:///$WINDIR\MyDirectory]
blacklist = /MySubDirectory/*

and several other variations. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. Thanks for the help.

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1 Solution

benme
Engager

I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling universal forwarder. After that blacklist worked properly.

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benme
Engager

I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling universal forwarder. After that blacklist worked properly.

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Since this is presumably on Windows/NTFS, try to make your blacklist case-insensitive:

blacklist = (?i)mysubdirectory

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Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

benme,

Are you sure you have not already indexed the directory prior to putting the blacklist in place? Splunk will keep the data in even if you later decide to blacklist the directory.

Hope this helps.

> please upvote and accept answer if you find it useful - thanks!

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Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Did you try restarting the Universal Forwarder?

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