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Setup forwarder on CentOS DHCP server to a Splunk Server

nelsoko
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How do I setup a Universal Forwarder on a CentOS DHCP server to forward all DHCP messages written to the /var/log/messages file to my Splunk server so they can be indexed and queried?

Thanks in advance!

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nelsoko
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Thanks for the pointing me in the right direction.

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