Getting Data In

input.conf first timer

daniel333
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All,

I just finished day 1 of the administration of Splunk class. Gotta admit to being lost.So I fired up a lab, 3 VMs. splunk01, host01, deploy01 and DC01 (for DNS).

Installed Splunk on Splunk01 and it worked. Enabled the listening on 9997. Installed the forwarders on host01. I can see the host check in when I do a search with index=_internal *splunkforwarder* as we did in the class.

But I made my own little "app". I created a folder under /opt/splunkforwarder/etc/myappname and folder under there called /local

My inputs.conf which I placed in /local reads as follows

[monitor:///var/log/messages]
disabled = 0
index=main

I restarted the forwarder, waited. Nothing ever came through. Any ideas to what I should be checking now?

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Damien_Dallimor
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You have ommitted the apps directory from the path :

/opt/splunkforwarder/etc/apps/myappname/local/inputs.conf

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