WIndows Events get \x00\ in agent Splunk Forwarder

[zksvc]

Hi Everyone,

i got error since i try install new agent in new server using SplunkForwarder. 

For inputs.conf i use like this 

[WinEventLog://Security]
disabled = 0
index = windows
sourcetype = Wineventlog:Security

[WinEventLog://System]
disabled = 0
index = windows
sourcetype = Wineventlog:System

[WinEventLog://Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational]
disabled = 0
index = windows
sourcetype = WinEventLog:PowerShell

And the preview is like this in source = C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs\Microsoft-Windows-WFP%4Operational.evtx 

This is not my first time to ingest windows, but this error just happen to me right now. And i confuse how to solved it.

[dataisbeautiful]

Hi @zksvc 

Looks like a binary file was read there.

Have you followed the steps here https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.4.0/Data/MonitorWindowseventlogdata ?

[zksvc · Accepted solution]

My bad, in this env my friend setting different inputs.conf and it from .evtx and it cannot readable in splunk without some setting. Sorry guys