Hi,
I am trying to set up a Universal Forwarder on a Linux box to send Security info to a Windows Server hosting Splunk.
I used the below command on the linux box after installing the univiersal forwarder:
./splunk add monitor /var/log/ - sourcetype syslog
But on the Windows Server,
All I see is messages like “x00\x5\x00\x4\xFF\x2\x1\x00”
I would like to see something more readable and preferable related to the security log.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Make sure your indexer is set to receive forwarded data on that port, and is not set to receive data as a TCP/UDP input.
Or, in webinterface terms, Manager -> Forwarding and Receiving -> Configure receiving.
Note that there is a difference between a raw TCP input and a TCP port for receiving forwarded data from another Splunk instance. In inputs.conf terms, you want a splunktcp input, not a tcp input.
Hi,
Thank you for the reply, but I am set to receive data on a TCP port.
I had a similar problem with the Windows machines that I installed Universal Forwarder, but a commenter's reply to another post suggested changing the outputs.conf file's sendCookedData value from true to false, and like magic I could read the messages. But, it did not work on the Linux Universal Forwarder machine's outputs.conf file. I still got messages like \x00\x5\x00\x4\xFF\x2\x1\x00
Any Suggestions?
Thanks,