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Importing logs from offline linux server

AbuRipleigh
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Hi all,

 

Can anyone direct me to a post or documentation on the best procedure for importing logs copied off a non-networked linux server? We're looking at copying the log files to a network share and then importing, but we've never done this for a Linux box that doesn't have a forwarder.

 

cheers.

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
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Probably the easiest way is create a mount point / share (e.g. /srv/logs/<node>/ no matter where and how it's named, do just like your organization naming standards said), and under that you could put those in one or several sub directories. Probably you could/should use day/month/year etc. sub directories there. It depends how and how often you are copied those logs there. Then use just your normal UF's inputs.conf which as modified by path part to point correct logs under that mount point.

r. Ismo

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