Splunk which props.conf

So i have to create one.. This is highly related to the TA i want to use. For extracts etc. Barracuda TA: does not have any requirement source, sourcetype, hostname etc If you want to forward or collect this input with a syslog-ng Server or universal forwarder you have to define the inputs.

This is why i needed to understant the props. It was necessary to understand which requirements those TAs have - and in my opinion regarding those kind of TAs its all written in the props. Sign In. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Getting Data In. Ask a Question. Jump to solution. Understanding props. Hello All, as far as i know splunk merges all probs.

Best regards, Michele E. Since splunk 6, some source can be parsed for structured data like headers, or json and be populated at the forwarder level. Those setting have to be on the forwarders and indexers if they monitor files. The Parsing phases looks at, analyzes, and transforms the data. The parsing phase has many sub-phases:. The Indexing phase takes the events as annotated with metadata and after transformations and writes it into the search index. Search is probably easier to understand and distinguish from the other phases, but configuration for search is similar to and often combined with that for input and parsing.

This is a non-exhaustive list of which configuration parameters go with which phase. By combining this information with an understanding of which server a phase occurs on, you can determine which server particular settings need to be made on. There are some settings that don't work well in a distributed server Splunk environment. These tend to be exceptional and include:. Note with 6. From dev: With 6.

It calls that sourcetype syslog, of course. So, I slowly added it at every level, still no workie. I added that props to the forwarders. I added it to the indexers deployed via master. I added it to the search heads. Hi Michael, you have to associate your sourcetype to your data flow in inputs. View solution in original post. I see how the naming there can be confusing. If your data for that Linux firewall is forwarded, you should have inputs.

In inputs. I'll try them one at a time and see what happens. I sure wish the documentation would have mentioned that little tidbit, that it needs to be in both If i describe about sourcetype in props. I haven't had to do that yet, but have you tried using the GUI to have splunk figure out the right syntax for you? Not yet. I did see that.