How to monitor my script output file automatically every one hour

[prathapkcsc]

I have a script containing ip and value.
Sh basic.sh>>sample.out
Know to get the logs i need to add this sample.out file to splunk like
/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk add monitor sample.out.
Then i the files will comes into splunk..
But the problem is i want that script to be run everyone one hour..everytime adding that output file to splunk is not a good idea..Is there any way to schedule automatically or monitor that output file all the time...

i want to avoid the below step everytime
"/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk add monitor filename"

can i add it to this folder
monitor://$SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk]

Thank you!

[richgalloway · Accepted solution]

If the script always writes to the same file you only need to add the monitor once. Splunk will then periodically check the file for changes and automatically index them.