Practical Network Automation - Second Edition

Step 1 – ensuring Splunk is configured to receive the data

In this step, we configure Splunk to monitor a specific folder in the local machine for any new data. Data would typically be in a comma-separated format generated from a Python script written in this particular folder. Listed are the steps to configure Splunk for monitoring the folder:

1. Select Data inputs from the Settings drop-down menu:

2. Configure data input to monitor a particular folder (C:\splunklogs in our example):

3. Ensure the data selection type is Automatic (Splunk has ...