Hardware and software requirements for the Splunk Add-on for Cisco ASA

To install and configure the Splunk Add-on for Cisco ASA, you must be assigned to the admin or sc_admin role.

Cisco ASA setup requirements

Configure your Cisco ASA devices to send log information to the Splunk platform over TCP or UDP.

To configure the ASA to send system log messages to a syslog server, execute the following command:

hostname(config)# logging host interface_name ip_address [tcp[/port] | udp[/port]] [format emblem]

For more information about syslog configuration, see [ https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/syslog/b_syslog.html the Cisco documentation].

Splunk platform requirements

Because this add-on runs on the Splunk platform, all of the system requirements apply for the Splunk software that you use to run this add-on.

• For Splunk Enterprise system requirements, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual.
• If you plan to run this add-on entirely in Splunk Cloud, there are no additional Splunk platform requirements.
• If you are managing on-premises forwarders to get data into Splunk Cloud, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual, which includes information about forwarders.

The field alias functionality is compatible with the current version of this add-on. The current version of this add-on does not support older field alias configurations.

For more information about the field alias configuration change, refer to the Splunk Enterprise Release Notes.