Splunk® Supported Add-ons

Splunk Add-on for Forcepoint Web Security

Install the Splunk Add-on for Forcepoint Web Security

Complete these steps to install the Splunk Add-on for Forcepoint Web Security:

  1. Get the Splunk Add-on for Forcepoint Web Security by downloading it from Splunkbase or browsing to it using the app browser within Splunk Web.
  2. Determine where and how to install this add-on in your deployment, using the following tables on this page.
  3. Perform any prerequisite steps before installing, if required and specified in the following tables.
  4. Complete your installation.

If you need step-by-step instructions on how to install an add-on in your specific deployment environment, see the following installation walkthroughs section for links to installation instructions specific to a single-instance deployment, distributed deployment, or Splunk Cloud.

Use the following tables to determine where and how to install this add-on in a distributed deployment of Splunk Enterprise. See the installation walkthrough section for links to installation instructions specific to a single-instance deployment, distributed deployment, or Splunk Cloud.

Distributed installation of this add-on

This table provides a quick reference for installing this add-on to a distributed deployment of Splunk Enterprise:

Splunk instance type Supported Required Comments
Search Heads Yes Yes Install this add-on to all search heads where Websense Content Gateway knowledge management is required.
Indexers Yes Conditional Not required if you use heavy forwarders to collect data. Required if you use universal forwarders to collect data.
Heavy Forwarders Yes No This add-on supports forwarders of any type for data collection.
Universal Forwarders Yes No This add-on supports forwarders of any type for data collection.

Distributed deployment compatibility

This table provides a quick reference for the compatibility of this add-on with Splunk distributed deployment features.

Distributed deployment feature Supported Comments
Search Head Clusters Yes You can install this add-on on a search head cluster for all search-time functionality.
Before installing this add-on to a cluster, remove the eventgen.conf file and all files in the Samples folder.
Indexer Clusters Yes Before installing this add-on to a cluster, remove the eventgen.conf file and all files in the Samples folder.
Deployment Server Yes Supported for deploying the configured add-on.

Installation walkthrough

See Installing add-ons in Splunk Add-Ons for detailed instructions describing how to install a Splunk add-on in the following deployment scenarios:

Last modified on 12 October, 2021
Installation overview for the Splunk Add-on for Forcepoint Web Security   Configure Forcepoint Web Security to send syslog data

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Supported Add-ons: released


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