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Michael Wilde replied to Nikita's discussion Count failures and success via transaction"How are these transactions linked together... by a field called "ID"? If so.. just build them with the field ID, and then use one of the MV commands to extract a field with success or failure in it. Paste some samples and…"
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Light forwarder sends directly to an Index on the splunk server
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Is it possible to have a splunk light forwarder (with unix enabled) to send its logs to a seperate index on the splunk server?Thanks everyone :)Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Ziad Mar 19, 2010.
SplunkLightForwarder + script inputs
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Hello, is it possible to configure splunklightforwarder to forward cpu utilisation? I've added the lines from the unix app to the splunklightfowarder and nothing's happening.Is there anything else…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Wilde Jan 27, 2010.
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Ziad replied to Ziad's discussion Light forwarder sends directly to an Index on the splunk server"Would that be at the light forwarder side? i am running unix and splunk light forwarder at the lightforwarder."
Michael Wilde replied to Ziad's discussion Light forwarder sends directly to an Index on the splunk server"you an also set an "index" setting in inputs.conf
[monitor://var/log/messages]
index=mysweetindex"
Ziad replied to Ziad's discussion Light forwarder sends directly to an Index on the splunk server"Worked perfectly! thanks!"
Ferry Leirissa replied to Ziad's discussion Light forwarder sends directly to an Index on the splunk server"Yes its possible, you can read it on http://www.splunk.com/support/forum:SplunkAdministration/3994
You have to edit the props and transforms (on receive) like :
props.conf
[host::devhost*]
TRANSFORMS-dev =…"
Michael Wilde replied to Ziad's discussion SplunkLightForwarder + script inputs"Splunk (we) -- disclosure -- I work there -- We need to make that app stuff better and more understandable. "where everything's supposed to go", "more app setups, so you can configure them more". Better management of…"
Ziad replied to Ziad's discussion SplunkLightForwarder + script inputs"I only enabled the app and it worked! the script checks had the index=os in the beginning. Tried it with both on or off and they didn't work. Right now i'm on a light forwarder with unix enabled. I can get everything on the master splunk…"
Michael Wilde replied to Ziad's discussion SplunkLightForwarder + script inputs"Put the UNIX app on both the indexer and the forwarder and it should work. Question, is there an "index=os" on your Indexer.. run that search and tell me if there are any events there."
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Hello, is it possible to configure splunklightforwarder to forward cpu utilisation? I've added the lines from the unix app to the splunklightfowarder and nothing's happening.Is there anything else that should be done to monitor local resources like cpu, mem, network... through splunklightforwarder?Thanks.See More
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