Getting Data In

Windows Event Codes Whitelist not working

knutsod
Path Finder

I am using a deployment server to push out a config to several universal forwarders (version 6.1.1) on windows, everything seems to be working fine but the whitelist part.
inputs.conf:

[WinEventLog:Security]
disabled = 0
whitelist = 508,510,576

I have also tried the following whitelist configs:

whitelist1 = 508,510,576


whitelist = 508|510|576

Nothing seems to work, I am seeing all the event IDs coming through to my indexer.

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Just to make sure, can you try with the 6.* input format with double slashs ?


[WinEventLog://Security]
disabled = 0
whitelist = 508,510,576

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.1/Data/MonitorWindowsdata

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knutsod
Path Finder

When the app gets deployed the // is added. So on the 6.1.1 universal forwarders it looks like that already.

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knutsod
Path Finder

Also note that the universal forwarders are version 6.1.1 but the heavy forwarder they are sending data to is splunk version 5.0.4.

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mendesjo
Path Finder

Same problem.. ever find a solution?

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