Security

Events are showing in binary

Umashankar
New Member

After onboarding done, The logs are reporting to splunk, But most of the events are showing like binary as below. The file CHARSET shows UTF-16LE, Have tried Auto also but stil

 

x00E\x00B\x00U\x00G\x00:\x00g\x00e\x00t\x00D\x00S\x00M\x00U\x00s\x00e\x00r\x00s\x00:\x00G\x00e\x00t\x00t\x00i\x00n\x00g\x00 \x00i\x00n\x00f\x00o\x00r\x00m\x00a\x00t\x00i\x00o\x00n\x00 \x00f\x00o\x00r\x00 \x00R\x00U\x007\x006\x007\x001\x003\x001\x00 \x00 \x00 \x00 \x00D\x00E\x00B\x00U\x00G\x00:\x00g\x00e\x00t\x00D\x00S\x00M\x00U\x00s\x00e\x00r\x00s\x00:\x00S\x00u\x00c\x00c\x00e\x00s\x00s\x00

 

Props has written as below:

SHOULD_LINEMERGE=false

LINE_BREAKER=([\r\n]+)

NO_BINARY_CHECK=true

CHARSET=UTF-16LE

disabled=false

DATETIME_CONFIG=CURRENT



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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
Have you set this UTF-16LE in UF's configuration file not in indexer or HF?
https://www.aplura.com/assets/pdf/props_conf_order.pdf shows where those should be.
r. Ismo
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eichfuss
Path Finder

Can you explain a bit more about the infrastructure? Are you sending data over the universal forwarder to splunk and where have you configured the props.conf, on the forwarder, indexer, intermediate forwarder, ....?

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