Thank you for the response(s). Basically, I wanted to make my splunk receiver a cron server as well. And I would like the output of the local cron scripts to be received and indexed by the local splunk listener. I had set up the splunk server to listen on port 9997 then also configured it to forward to itself on that port. I then configured a local test script to run every 30 seconds through the splunk manager but found that the output of the script was not getting captured by the splunk server. Is there a better way to do something like this than what I had understood? ... View more