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Is there documentation of writing a "forwarder" from another system type?

ticsoftware
New Member

We want to write an program to gather logging information from our HP NonStop system log files, both OSS and Guardian, and send them to a Splunk instance. Is this documented? We must use sockets to do this.

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You don't really need anything other than to send plain text to a TCP port, and put line breaks (or some other configurable sequence) between lines. Put fields in the lines as "name=value" pairs. Set Splunk indexers to monitor the port. That's pretty much it.

bwooden
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Are these log files available as text files? You could monitor them directly from a forwarder and have them sent directly to a Splunk indexer. You mentioned writing a program to gather the information. You may want to create a scripted input to query the logs if they are not lying around on disk ready to be consumed. You can run the scripted input from a forwarder and have it sent to an indexer.

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