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universalfowarder syslog receive and send

khyoung7410
Communicator

hi
universalforwarder receives and send the syslog data to do?
If possible, how do?

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jbsplunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Yes, it is possible. You need to configure your UF to listen on a network port and receive syslog data. You can then forward the data to an indexer where it'll be written to disk.

The instructions for this can be found in the documentation here:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Deploy/Setupforwardingandreceiving

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jbsplunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Yes, it is possible. You need to configure your UF to listen on a network port and receive syslog data. You can then forward the data to an indexer where it'll be written to disk.

The instructions for this can be found in the documentation here:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Deploy/Setupforwardingandreceiving

khyoung7410
Communicator

Thank you. I will try it

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