Getting Data In

Splunk universal forwarders

chimbudp
Contributor

Where does Splunk universal forwarder actually get the data?
How do it organizes the data and send to Splunk indexer?
Kindly please help along with the file names.

OS: Windows

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sdaniels
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Please read this and it will give you the details for how to monitor windows events.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Monitorwindowsdata

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