@kschmidt_splunk, I just got my SplunkID in the email. Thank you so much. You are the best. ... View more

@kschmidt_splunk, my email address is saji.ijiyemi@gmail.com. Thank you so much for your assistance. ... View more

@kschmidt_splunk, thanks for your swift response. It's been a week now that I connected the accounts. PVUE recently sent me a temp password to login to my account. Does this have anything to do with the SplunkID or it's better to just wait to make sure the accounts are connected properly? Thanks. ... View more

@kschmidt_splunk , I entered my information at https://www.splunk.com/en_us/training/pearson-vue-registration-form.html to connect my accounts but I've not received my Splunk ID since and I don't know what is going on. They mentioned in the form that we don't have to send email to Splunk certification. Can you please help me to get my Splunk ID... Cannot register for certification on Pearson Vue without it. Thank you in advance. My name is Saji Oluwasegun' Ijiyemi. ... View more

@maraman_splunk and @woodcock, thanks for responses. I'm leaning towards the IOD version so I can do it on my own time. I just want to be sure the content is not outdated. I've emailed education_amer@splunk.com and still waiting for their response. I also noticed that Splunk 7.x Fundamentals Part 2 (IOD) is a course while Splunk 7.3 Fundamentals Part 2 is a Training. Does anyone know if the two classes are up-to-date content-wise? ... View more

@richgalloway, thanks for your response. I see about 6 props.conf... which one am I supposed to modify and what exactly am I supposed to correct the TIME_PREFIX, TIME_FORMAT, and MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD settings to? I'm a newbie learning splunk. Thank you. Thank you. ... View more

Thank you @woodcock. You're the best! It works. I used Windows Powershell (Admin), issued C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin>splunk list monitor and it displayed list of files that Splunk is currently monitoring. Thank you again. ... View more

Just want to quickly add that I installed Splunk on a personal computer and not on a server. How can I monitor at least some files on my PC just to prove that the Forwarder is monitoring something? Thanks. ... View more

Just want to quickly add that I installed Splunk on a personal computer and not on a server. How can I monitor at least some files on my PC just to prove that the Forwarder is monitoring something? Thanks. ... View more

Thanks for your insight @woodcock. I issued the same command again. It didn't prompt me for credentials again, it just returns the shell prompt. Like you said, is it okay to assume that "the command did run and splunk is not monitoring any files on that forwarder?" Thank you so much. ... View more

Thanks for the response @richgalloway . I used the same username and password for Splunk Enterprise and Forwarder. Looks like that's a bad decision or how can I change the Forwarder password? Thanks a lot. ... View more