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Issues with wildcard input stanza

wilcomply13
Explorer

I've been having issues with wildcarded input monitoring.  In an attempt to adjust for an issue with file path naming across a number of servers. 

 

My original/working stanza. Disregard ellipses, I've shortened the path for this posting:

[monitor://D:\Program Files\Microsoft\...\MessageTracking]

 

My adjusted/wildcarded stanzas that have not worked for input on any of our. Disregard ellipses, I've shortened the path for this posting to increase readability:

- [monitor://D:\*\Microsoft\...\MessageTracking]

- [monitor://D:\Prog*am Files\Microsoft\...\MessageTracking]

- [monitor://D:\*Files\Microsoft\...\MessageTracking]

 

I don't appear to receive an error message after this change, but logs completely drop off when wildcard is put into the deployed configuration.

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wilcomply13
Explorer

Unfortunately, I've no direct access to the endpoint. I've resolved the issue by putting in a secondary input stanza to account for the file path difference.

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wilcomply13
Explorer

Unfortunately, I've no direct access to the endpoint. I've resolved the issue by putting in a secondary input stanza to account for the file path difference.

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s2_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Can you run 

 

$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk _internal call /services/admin/inputstatus/TailingProcessor:FileStatus

 

to check if it provides any hints as to why your wildcards don't match? Many moons ago, spaces in wild-carded directories on Windows caused issues, but those should be fixed by now.  I don't really see anything wrong with your config.

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