Deployment Architecture

Do I need a Heavy Forwarder if I'm monitoring Active Directory and DHCP logs?

dantimola
Communicator

Hi Ninjas,

Just like to ask if I still need to have a Heavy Forwarder in monitoring AD and DHCP logs? Or Universal Forwarder and Indexers will suffice? Thanks.

Regards,
Dan

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adonio
Ultra Champion
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adonio
Ultra Champion

hello there,
the Universal Forwarder is good for this job
use the TA for Windows
read here:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.2/Data/Usingforwardingagents
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.2/Data/HowtogetWindowsdataintoSplunk
hope it helps

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