How do I automate the indexing and field extraction process?

[minkyuk]

Good morning,

For the past few days, I have been putting log files through an indexer and extracted some fields manually.

However, I want to automate this process where log files are generated automatically at a certain directory. I am stuck on how to perform this task. (Daily scheduled event perhaps?)

If anyone has any idea on this matter, I would appreciate your input.

Thanks,
Jack

[woodcock]

It is very straightforward, start here and it should be easy:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.4/Data/Monitorfilesanddirectories