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Specifying timezone by host and sourcetype

grahamkenville
Engager

We have a sourcetype for /var/log/messages that is logged in the local server time on almost every host.

We have one host, however, which logs /var/log/messages (and some other files) in GMT. The system time on this host is set to the local timezone. This host is sending logs via the universal forwarder.

I understand that I need to probably need to modify props.conf on the Splunk host which is indexing the logs. My question is, how do I specify that I only want sourcetype foo from host bar (and ONLY host bar) to be in GMT?

Can I do something like this?
[source::/var/log/messages AND host::bar]
TZ=GMT

Thanks!

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pshumate
Explorer

Where do I conf that?
Timestamp is a parse time function and must be done at the indexer. 6.0 helps a bit.

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Takajian
Builder

Timestamp is recognized when Splunk parse the event. So, you will need to configure appropriate Timezone setting on your universal forwarder with host, not central indexer. Hope this help.

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