scripted authentication

noun

An option for Splunk authentication. You can use an authentication system you already have in place (such as PAM or RADIUS) by configuring authentication.conf to use a script instead of using LDAP or Splunk's default authentication.


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In Securing Splunk:

configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time