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Sure... When you do group mapping, map them to groups that don't have the domain admins in them. I have a separate OU=Groups that has "Splunk Users, Splunk Admins, Splunk Power Users" as group names, and specific users…
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I want to give LDAP access to my splunk servcie but I don't want the LDAP users to have admin capabilitys in Splunk. Can I keep the domain admins out of Splunk if I have LDAP authentication???
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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 20, 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 28, 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.
SplunkLightForwarder + script inputs
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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