When I installed the Splunk UniversalForwarder for Windows, the inputs.conf file has the stanza;
[default]
host = <actual host name>
I want to make the Splunk Forwarder directories o...
I’m a seasoned Splunk admin and I recently noticed that I'm not aware ofany Windows-specific installation best practices for my endpoints. Do these exist? Are there any best practices that apply o...
I am looking for a way to deploy Splunk Forwarders to a Server Farm. I would like to package the installation and then copy an inputs.conf file to the server after the deployment.
Is there a way t...
...r winevent logs. All I can find in Splunk Community is "Universalforwarders use limited resources" which doesn't help me much. As partof my onboarding process of bringing server logging into S...
...pecific sourcetype(log4j). My UniversalForwarder configuration is as follows:
inputs.conf
[default]
host = 1
[monitor://server.log]
sourcetype=log4j
index= targetIndex
On the indexer, I have n...
Hi, Splunkers,
Can someone suggest what is the best practice to integrate Citrix mcs to Splunk? Our case is, we can't install splunk universalforwarder on the citrix servers because the server i...
What is a good procure to follow for installing a Splunk UniversalForwarder on a Linux host for the first time? A step by step process might help first time users get data into Splunk and u...
Hi there,
I'm using Splunk 7.0.0 with an cluster setup for our indexer and a dedicated syslog server where also snmp traps are collected.
This Server has auniversalforwarder installed.
For t...
...version: Splunk UniversalForwarder 5.0.4 (build 172409)
The only problem is that Splunk forwarder doesn't seem to use those properties I am specifying. Am I doing something wrong? Can t...