Use Stream configuration templates

Stream configuration templates are pre-defined stream configurations that provide specific protocol field mappings for Splunk products. You can apply configuration templates to the streamfwd binary using command line options, which let you configure data capture, without using the Configure Streams UI in splunk_app_stream for configuration management.

Splunk Stream provides configuration templates for these Splunk products:

• Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI): ITSI configuration templates provide custom protocol fields that map to metrics in Splunk ITSI modules.
• Enterprise Security (ES): ES configuration templates provides custom protocol fields that map to CIM data models used in Splunk ES.

Activate Stream configuration templates

To activate/deactivate a template, use these streamfwd command line options:

  -c [TEMPLATE_NAME]           Activate specified product template.
  -c                           Deactivate any active product template.
  --listtemplates              List installed product templates.

Examples

Both Splunk_TA_stream and independent streamfwd deployments support configuration templates.

Activate configuration template in Splunk_TA_stream

To activate the itsi configuration template for Splunk_TA_stream:

1. Go to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/Splunk_TA_stream/linux_x86_64/bin.
2. Run the following command:

   [root@sr-centos2 bin]# ./streamfwd -c itsi
   Configuration Template located at /opt/splunk/etc/apps/Splunk_TA_stream/configs/itsi activated. 
   

3. Restart Splunk.
4. Confirm that the configTemplateName = itsi parameter has been added to Splunk_TA_stream/local/streamfwd.conf. For example:

   [streamfwd]
   port = 8889
   ipAddr = 127.0.0.1
   
   configTemplateName = itsi
   

Activate configuration template for independent streamfwd

Independent streamfwd deployments use HTTP Event Collector (HEC) to send data indexers. When activating a configuration template for an independent streamfwd deployment, you must manually add one or more indexer.0.uri = <indexer_location> parameters to specify indexer locations.

To activate the es configuration template for an independent streamfwd deployment:

1. Go to opt/streamfwd/bin.
2. Run the following command:

   [root@sr-centos2 bin]# ./streamfwd -c es
   Configuration Template located at /opt/streamfwd/configs/es is activated. 
   

3. Restart streamfwd.
4. Add indexer.<N>.uri = <indexer_location> parameters to specify indexer locations. For example:

   [streamfwd]
   port = 8889
   ipAddr = 127.0.0.1
   
   configTemplateName = es
   indexer.0.uri = http://soln-perf110-1:8088
   indexer.1.uri = http://soln-perf11-2:8088