Deployment Architecture

Splunk forwarders on network devices??

shri_27
Path Finder

Hi all,
Can Splunk forwarders be installed on Network devices such as Swithes,routers,Gateways,etc for data capture and analysis??

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mewtwo
Explorer

For best practices for network devices look at a recent blog post:
http://blogs.splunk.com/2013/05/13/network-inputs-best-practices/

treinke
Builder

Most of those devices do not let you install software on to them. Although they do support syslog to Splunk.

Setting Up Syslog in Splunk

Are you looking to do a tcpdump/pcap traffic capture? You could set Splunk to listen to specific ports that you forward the traffic to.

Get data from TCP and UDP ports

This sounds a lot like this question.

Splunk and Port Mirroring

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