Monitoring Splunk

How do i connect splunk to a server?

niwenofu
Engager

I am trying out splunk but I cannot seem to connect the program to my server. How do i do this?

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Ayn
Legend

Provide much, much more details on what you are trying to accomplish, what you did so far, what doesn't work etc etc.

ChrisG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Do you mean as a data input? To understand about how to feed data to Splunk, see the Getting Data In manual. Whether you have local data or remote data, this manual is the place to read about data sources and inputs.

niwenofu
Engager

Ok. Thanks.

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