All line breaking, timestamp recognition and other important parsing steps are done on the forwarder and it also speeds up indexing and search results. ... View more

thank you! ... View more

Any time! Feel free to upvote 🙂 ... View more

index="the_index" | geostats count(dport) latitude=slat longitude=slong by dport ... View more

You can remove that on the indexer as indexed extractions are done on the forwarder props.conf. ... View more

Why not just leverage the Splunk App for Database Connectivity to do the same? https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2686/ ... View more

SEC can produce output by executing external programs (e.g., snmptrap(1) or mail(1)), by writing to files, by sending data to TCP and UDP based servers, by calling precompiled Perl subroutines, etc. You should be able to output and send data over syslog via TCP or UDP into Splunk. ... View more

Include a sample of some events, include your props.conf so we can comment properly. Thanks! ... View more

I listed the proper settings above. ... View more

So just work with your various permissions until you find the right settings and you should be good. ... View more

What happens if you run the Forwarder with domain admin permissions just as a test? On Windows UF you should only need to changes the splunkd service account in windows services.msc and the account should have those user rights assignments : Full control over Splunk's installation directory Read access to any flat files you want to index Permission to log on as a service Permission to log on as a batch job Permission to replace a process-level token Permission to act as part of the operating system Permission to bypass traverse checking ... View more

Excellent! Please upgoat my answer! ... View more

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Forwarder/6.4.3/Forwarder/Configureforwardingwithoutputs.conf and http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Forwarding/Forwarddatatothird-partysystemsd ... View more

Some thoughts... Are you using the http://servername.com on port 8089? Don't use port 8000. Don't put a / like http://servername.com/ at the end of the URL Ensure there are no network ports being blocked from your client to port 8089 on the server. ... View more

Yes, Should be perfectly fine. Give it a try and let me know the results. ... View more

Run these searches and show me the output: Should display results: index=_* splunkd_stdout.log | stats count by host,source Probably will not display results: index=* splunkd_stdout.log | stats count by host,source ... View more

You didn't prepare your system image that gets deployed correctly if there is a local folder that contains a system/local/inputs.conf with: [default] host = somehostname.here.com If you follow these instructions: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Admin/Integrateauniversalforwarderontoasystemimage Then you would prepare your image once it is setup correctly, and the command: Run ./splunk clone-prep-clear-config. Would clear out the inputs.conf in local. You don't need it since that inputs.conf will get created the moment the forwarder that gets deployed and starts up for the very first time. ... View more

I assume you are referencing the https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2775/ app which is the TA-forwarderquery. I see that in this specific app it contains a forwarderquery.py in the bin directory of this TA. This App is not created or supported by Splunk, but by someone who is a Splunk app developer, Dominique Vocat . You can reach out to them on the app page for additional support. ... View more

No. Settings/Forwarding and Receiving is when you use forwarders on port 9997 (default). Settings/Data Inputs/UDP or TCP is where you add 514 with rsyslog. ... View more