Getting Data In

Syslog data with SSL enabled

arkonner
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To enforce security should be possible to configure a syslog listener with SSL enabled

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FrankVl
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What exactly is your question?

For sending SSL syslog data directly into Splunk, you can use a tcp-ssl input, see inputs.conf spec for details.

In general it is considered best practice not to send syslog data directly to UDP/TCP inputs, but rather use a syslog daemon (rsyslog / syslog-ng) to receive the data and write it to disk, and then use file monitor inputs to get the data into splunk.

Both rsyslog and syslog-ng support SSL syslog as far as I know, You best refer to the documentation of those tools themselves for details if you want to take that route.

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