We have a Windows Domain Controller(DC) that creates lots of security events. We are monitoring wineventlog://security and have noticed that, on a regular basis, we get no events. We know the events are there because we can see events we missed in the evt files that are kept. The OS has a policy to rotate the log when it gets to a certain size, and we are thinking this may be when we stop getting events. This happens on all of our DCs, but not at the same time. Any experience with high volume DCs and logs rolling causing a problem? ... View more

We have a farm of Citrix servers that are built from a Gold image. The systems act as desktops for users. Each night the system is rebooted and it comes up like the day the Gold image was built. All of the Windows logs have been redirected to an E: drive that is persistent. I can't load Splunk on the E drive because it is not accessible when the Gold Image was built. I can't load Splunk on the gold image because it starts everyday like a brand new install and the guid changes each day plus we get all the logs back to the date the gold image was built. I think we have 3 choices but don't know how to do any of them. 1) Load Splunk on E drive and figure out how to tell the gold image to start Splunk from E: at boot. 2) Load Splunk on C drive and tell Splunk to only forward events form boot time forward. 3) Load Splunk on C: but tell Splunk to put all the temporary files, fish bucket, or anything else that needs to change, on E: Anyone have any suggestions? Even a list of all the Splunk UF file locations and registry entries would be a big help. ... View more