Installation

How to Lock Down Forwarder agent?

Devesh123
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Hi Team / Community

can someone please help me , i need to stop admin users from uninstalling the universal forwarder agent ?
how do i achieve this ? please help!

And dont anything about RBAC thats another story line .................

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adonio
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i think your question belongs to the people relationship page ...
maybe you should talk to them?
explain them why shouldnt they remove the forwarders?
maybe give them a nice demo of splunk and some value you extracted form the data you are now missing because they uninstalled your forwarder?
you can also have a job that installs your forwarders every hour, in that case, if its uninstalled, your job will re-install the forwarder!

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