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Office 365 logs

tmardan
Explorer

Hello!

How can I add Office 365 logs to my Splunk if I have 1 search head and 2 indexers and using distributed search?

Should I install all add-ons on 1 indexer and make all configurations on it and all add-ons and app on search head?

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thambisetty
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I recommend HF.

Indexers are generally overloaded with requests coming from search head.

You can Install on Indexer if they are not overloaded.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Start by reading the docs for the add-ons and apps you plan to install.  They should say where they want to be installed.

In general, inputs should not be defined on indexers in a distributed environment.  Doing so is likely to cause duplicated data.  Put them on a heavy forwarder, instead.  See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/AddOns/released/Overview/Distributedinstall

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thambisetty
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@tmardan 

exactly.  To separate workloads to different worker machines. 

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tmardan
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As I understood at this moment I can use for it universal forwarder too?

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thambisetty
SplunkTrust
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@tmardan 

you can't use UF as it doesn't have python included in package.

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tmardan
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Thank you for answer!

You mean deploy heavy forwarder on another machine and configure it to receive logs from Office365 and then send them to my indexers?

thambisetty
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I recommend HF.

Indexers are generally overloaded with requests coming from search head.

You can Install on Indexer if they are not overloaded.

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