All,
I am looking at Splunk for Unix TA. I see the /var/log/messages input and for the life of me I can't find in this app where it's getting it's sourcetype of "syslog". Skimmed props.conf on the TA (why does the TA have a props?) and the splunk_for_unix_app too.
[monitor:///var/log]
whitelist=(\.log|log$|messages|secure|auth|mesg$|cron$|acpid$|\.out)
blacklist=(lastlog|anaconda\.syslog)
index=os
disabled = 1
syslog
belongs to a set of predefined source types - What are the default sourcetypes and how are they determined?
The "official" documentation about them at Why source types matter
Hi Daniel,
This page is listing all the source types from Splunk App for Unix -
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/UnixAddOn/5.2.3/User/SourcetypesandCIMdatamodelinfo
why does the TA have a props?
Splunk has config files for separately for "global and app/user contexts", so that maintenance would become easy and simple.
when the number of users and apps grow, these global and app/user contexts help in administration duties.