error while giving path for different servers

[rupesh212121]

hi my scenario is i am having different servers in which same services are running like httpd, maillog, errorlog and i want to see logs of all these servers. i have tried to give path for both the servers for seeing it access logs as /var/logs/httpd/access_logs and it gave me the following error.

"Encountered the following error while trying to save: In handler 'monitor': Cannot create another input with the name "/var/log/httpd/access_log", one already exists."

how can i see the same logs of two different servers.

plz help me in this regard.

thank u Prakash

[LCM]

Basically, you do:

Server 1 (Indexer - MASTER)

1. Manager » Data inputs » Files & Directories » Add New --> */var/log/httpd/access_log*
2. Manager » Forwarding and receiving » Receive data » Add New --> 9997

Server 2 (Forwarder - CLIENT)

1. Manager » Data inputs » Files & Directories » Add New --> */var/log/httpd/access_log*
2. Manager » Forwarding and receiving » Forward data » Add New --> < ip.from.your.master:9997 >

Please, read through following docs as well:

• http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.1.7/admin/AboutForwardingAndReceiving
• http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.1.7/admin/Enableforwardingandreceiving

[LCM]

That error means you already configured that path for monitoring then. There is no reason to configure it twice. Can you double check, if you entered that path before

[rupesh212121]

but it is not accepting the path as it is saying the path already exist.