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Data Inputs

Splunk's access to event data from files, FIFOs, network ports, and ODBC databases can be configured and controlled from the CLI, including its methods for setting meta data - host, source, and sourcetype.


Actions

Contexts

Default Argument

Parameters

Add

Edit

Remove

List

Examples 

splunk add tail /var/log/myapp/ -sourcetype myApp
splunk add batch /var/logarchive/ -host-method segment:2
splunk add udp 514
splunk edit odbc mysqlserver:stats -sourcetype mynewtype
splunk remove odbc mysqltable
splunk remove udp 514
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 2.1 , 2.2 , 2.2.1 , 2.2.3 , 2.2.6 View the Article History for its revisions.


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