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How to forward only specific Windows eventlogs via Splunk Universal forwarder

chimbudp
Contributor

I need to monitor only logs with Event code = 5410,6913.
How can i setup this in forwarder ?
please suggest some help

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lukejadamec
Super Champion

This is what the book says to do...

On the forwarder, you need to enable the WinEventLog:Security input.

On the indexer you need to create entries in your system/local/props.conf and system/local/transforms.conf

props.conf

[source::*:Security]

TRANSFORMS-set=setnull,setparsing

transforms.conf

[setnull]

REGEX = .

DEST_KEY = queue

FORMAT = nullQueue

[setparsing]

REGEX =(?m)^EventCode=(5410|6913)

DEST_KEY = queue

FORMAT = indexQueue

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sbrant_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

As of Splunk 6, there is a simpler way to filter which Windows events are forwarded by Splunk.

See whitelist and blacklist in the "Windows Event Log Monitor" section of the following doc: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/Inputsconf

lukejadamec
Super Champion

This is what the book says to do...

On the forwarder, you need to enable the WinEventLog:Security input.

On the indexer you need to create entries in your system/local/props.conf and system/local/transforms.conf

props.conf

[source::*:Security]

TRANSFORMS-set=setnull,setparsing

transforms.conf

[setnull]

REGEX = .

DEST_KEY = queue

FORMAT = nullQueue

[setparsing]

REGEX =(?m)^EventCode=(5410|6913)

DEST_KEY = queue

FORMAT = indexQueue

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