Can Splunk Light capture IOT stream data in Microsoft UL from a USB port?

[radialdrillingv]

I want to capture 1000ms from a Measurement Computer 1208FS-Plus. It plugs into our laptop and is connected to a sensor.

Can Splunk Light capture IOT stream data in Microsoft Universal Language from a USB port?

[evania]

Hi @radialdrillingvibe ,

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[MuS]

Hi radialdrillingvibe,

You wanted to know the right thing, but you asked the wrong question 🙂

Your question should be like How do I get Microsoft UL output into Splunk?

Short version:
Any output to stdout by a script started by Splunk will be indexed, see details here https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/AdvancedDev/ScriptedInputsIntro . Your task will be, to write a script that queries the USB device and outputs the data to stdout.

And to answer your posted question:
Yes, it can - see here https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkLight/latest/GettingStarted/AboutSplunkLight#Events_inde... for more details. As you can see it lists scripts as option for event indexing 😉

Hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

[radialdrillingv]

Short version: Any output to stdout by a script started by Splunk will be indexed, see details here https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/AdvancedDev/ScriptedInputsIntro . Your task will be, to write a script that queries the USB device and outputs the data to stdout.

Can I use a Splunk Add-On and/or the Universal Forwarder to write a script to query the USB and output to stdout?

[MuS]

You might be able to use the Add-On builder https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/AddonBuilder/latest/UserGuide/Overview to create an add-on and use it on the universal forwarder. But again, it will be your task to bridge the gap and create a script that queries the device and outputs into Splunk.

cheers, MuS