How to monitor specific sub folders

[avitallange]

Hi,

I have the following folder structure:
C:\temp\logs\ComponentName1\InstanceName1\log.txt
C:\temp\logs\ComponentName2\InstanceName3\FolderToExclude

There are various ComponentName folders and 3 InstanceName folders under each component.

I'd like:

1. To collect the log.txt files of all components from all their instances and only them. I.e. to exclude all other files folders such as FolderToExclude\fileToExclude.txt.
2. To extract the fields ComponentName and InstanceName so I can filter according them.

For #1 I tired to add in "C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\system\local\inputs.conf"
the following line:
[monitor://c:\temp\logs\.\(InstanceName1|InstanceName2|InstanceName3)\..txt]
sourcetype = MySourceType

I restarted splunkd and splunkweb but it didn't help.
When I create a new file under C:\temp\logs\ComponentName2\InstanceName3\FolderToExclude it is still monitored.

For #2 I think I should add a stanza [MySourceType] contains

EXTRACT-extract_ComponentName = ?????

EXTRACT-extract_InstanceName = ?????

but I am not sure how to do this.

Could you please help?

Thanks!

[linu1988]

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[avitallange]

Thanks, I got what I want!

[linu1988]

Please follow the monitor stanza in the below documentation.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/Admin/Inputsconf

Monitor the parent directory with "recursive = true"
and define whitelist=(.)*.txt to see if only the .txt files are monitored. Thanks