Good day
is it possible to only monitor FILE NAMES within a Directory and sub directories and not the Content of these files
Reason being, I need to have a Logging system that users can monitor if a File has been received, but they do not need to see the content
also it needs to read as Simply as possible
I have a similar need, I want to list all the files on a volume. These are large video files and I need a list of what is on the volume for reconciliation and searching. One way to set this up is create a Windows .bat file and schedule it to run. The script outputs to a text file. Then configure splunk to monitor the text file. Here is the .bat script:
dir e:\someFolderName*.* /b >>e:\fileNameForSplunkToMonitor.txt
fschange is being depriciated and splunk uses Windows security audit. This would be too cumbersome for my needs as I would have to search for all files added & deleted to get the current inventory.
You can configure an fschange input stanza to monitor changes to the directory. That would probably be the easiest. Look for "fschange" on this page: http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/admin/Inputsconf