![]() See The universal forwarder in the Universal Forwarder manual for information about how to install, configure and use the forwarder to collect event log data. As a best practice, use a universal forwarder to send event log data from remote machines to an indexer. You collect event log data from remote machines using a universal forwarder, a heavy forwarder, or WMI. Security and other considerations for collecting event log data from remote machines The user that the forwarder runs as must have read access to the event logs you want to collect. See Choose the Windows user Splunk Enterprise should run as in the Installation Manual. The Splunk universal forwarder or heavy forwarder must run as a domain or remote user with read access to Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) on the remote machine.The universal forwarder or heavy forwarder must run on the Windows machine from which you want to collect event logs.The Splunk universal forwarder or Splunk Enterprise instance must run as the Local System Windows user to read all local event logs.See Install on Windows in the Installation Manual. The Splunk universal forwarder or Splunk Enterprise instance must run on Windows.Requirements for monitoring event logs Activity The Splunk platform indexing, searching, and reporting capabilities make your logs accessible. If there is a problem with your Windows system, the Event Log service has logged it. Windows event logs are the core metric of Windows machine operations. For instructions on using the Splunk Add-on for Windows to get data into Splunk Cloud Platform, see Get Windows Data Into Splunk Cloud in the Splunk Cloud Admin Manual. As a best practice, use the Splunk Add-on for Windows to simplify the process of getting data into Splunk Cloud Platform. To monitor Windows Event Log channels in Splunk Cloud Platform, use a Splunk universal or heavy forwarder to collect the data and forward it to your Splunk Cloud Platform deployment. The event log monitor runs once for every event log input that you define. You can monitor event log channels and files that are on the local machine or you can collect logs from remote machines. Programs such as Microsoft Event Viewer subscribe to these log channels to display events that have occurred on the system. It gathers log data that installed applications, services, and system processes publish and places the log data into event log channels. The Windows Event Log service handles nearly all of this communication. For more details on using the CLI in general, see Administer Splunk Enterprise with the CLI in the Splunk Enterprise Admin Manual.Windows generates log data during the course of its operations. ![]() You can choose to edit the configuration files through the command line. The forwarder writes configurations for forwarding data to nf in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/).Įdit the configuration files through the command line This prevents typos and other mistakes that can occur when you edit configuration files directly. When you make configuration changes with the CLI, the universal forwarder writes the configuration files. You can edit them however you normally edit files, such as through a text editor or the command line, or you can use the Splunk Deployment Server. nf for connecting to a deployment server.nf for connection and performance tuning.nf controls how the forwarder sends data to an indexer or other forwarder.nf controls how the forwarder collects data.Navigate to nf in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/ to locate your Universal Forwarder configuration files. Optionally edit the Universal forwarder configuration files to further modify how your machine data is streamed to your indexers. Configure the universal forwarder using configuration files
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