The Splunk platform prepends the with index.įor more information about the index field, see How indexing works in the Splunk Enterprise Managing Indexers and Clusters manual. Sets the index where events from this input are stored. The IP address or fully qualified domain name of the host where the data originated. The Splunk platform prepends the with host. The input processor uses the key during parsing and indexing to set the host field and uses the field during searching. Sets the host key to a static initial value for this stanza. You can use the following settings in both monitor and batch input stanzas. splunk _internal call /services/data/inputs/monitor/_reload -auth Add a stanza that references the files or directories that you want to monitor.įor example, to monitor the /var/log/messages file on a *nix system, use this specification:.Open nf for editing with a text editor.If the nf file doesn't exist, create the file.Change the listed directory to the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local directory.On the machine that runs Splunk software, open a shell or command prompt.
#Automate file monitor install#
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You can find the defaults for settings in the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/nf directory.įor more information about configuration files, see About configuration files in the Splunk Enterprise Admin Manual.Ĭonfigure a forwarder to send data to Splunk Cloud Platform If you don't specify a value for a setting, the Splunk platform uses the default for that setting. You can configure multiple settings in an input stanza. To learn more about the nf file, see nf in the Splunk Enterprise Admin Manual. These locations are on the machine that runs Splunk Enterprise or the forwarder. To configure an input, add a stanza to the nf file in the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/ directory or your own custom application directory in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/. If you use Splunk Cloud Platform, you can use either Splunk Web or a forwarder to configure file monitoring inputs.
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The nf file provides the most configuration options for setting up a file monitor input. You can use the nf file to monitor files and directories with the Splunk platform. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.Monitor files and directories with nf The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. Now I can safely reboot the machine and have my trace to analyze of course you can also use those (and other) command line switches in a batch file or scripts if you need to automate the tool.
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Procmon /quiet /minimized /backingfile c:\temp\trace.pmlīefore the screensaver starts, wait for the problem to reproduce, resume the OS and even without access to the GUI and from the Task Manager run:
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Either way the trace is lost.Ĭoincidentally also my colleague Stefano had a similar problem and we (he, actually) found a couple of command line switches that can be used to control Procmon for such situations, in particular “/BackingFile” and “/Terminate”: /backingfile tells Procmon where to automatically save the trace, while /terminate actually starts a new instance of Procmon, terminates all other Procmon instances and exits. This suggests the user’s registry is for some reason unloaded during when the screensaver is running, but the point is: if I run Procmon before the screensaver starts and wait for the problem to reproduce (to have a complete trace) then I’m unable to save the trace because I cannot access any running task which a GUI unless I start a new one or reboot the machine. The other day I needed to capture a Process Monitor trace on a machine to troubleshoot a problem where the entire OS GUI was “broken” after the resume from screensaver with “GUI broken” I mean that clicking on any icon on the desktop has no effect, the right click menu does not work etc…, but we are still able to access the Task Manager and run tasks (command line etc…) from the File > New Task (Run…) menu.