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configuring timestamp

a212830
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Hi,

I have a number of logfiles that do not have timestamps. I am processing these logs with the univeral forwarder, on Windows servers. i want the timestamp to be equal to the time of the universal forwarders time when the entry was processed. How would I configure props.conf to do such a thing?

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

This is possible, but the timestamp will be the index time at the indexer (not the read time at the forwarder).
You have to define a sourcetype for your log, and define it in props.conf on the indexer


[mysourcetypefornotimestamp]
DATETIME_CONFIG = CURRENT

see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.1/Data/Configuretimestamprecognition

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