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How to encrypt and password protect a file/folder on Mac?
This question came up at work the other day, and I did not know the answer to it. Now I do ;). Here are the steps to do it. First we create a few files to work with. The files are empty but that does not matter for now: touch file1.txt touch file2.txt touch file3.txt...
What are Splunk forwarders?
In the article about roles. we treated a decent amount of different roles. But up until now we did not see yet who is responsible for getting the data to the indexers. Here is where forwarders come in. Universal Forwarder (UF) The Splunk Universal Forwarder is a very...
What are Splunk’s server roles?
In a distributed environment we will no longer have all functions performed by the same server, Each server will be designated one or more roles. These roles are also important from a monitoring perspective. As we will see in a later article Splunk's Monitoring...
What are Splunk’s deployment types?
Splunk has two ways of being deployed. One is a standalone box and the other is called a 'distributed deployment'. What are the differences? In a standalone deployment you will have one server that does all of the work. In a distributed deployment you will have more...
What are Splunk’s magic 6?
In our last article about Splunk metadata we spoke about the sourcetype field being one of the metadadata fields. In our article about getting data in Splunk we also saw that at a certain moment we had to chose a sourcetype for our data. What we did not do was open...
What are metadata in Splunk?
Meta what?? This does really sound more complicated than it really is. meta is in face 'data about data'. You remember from our article about getting data into Splunk, that I told you you should not any time trying to understand sourcetype, source, sourcetype and...
How can I get data into Splunk?
Now that you have installed your Splunk Stand Alone machine, it is time to get data into your instance. The easiest way to get data into your Splunk instance will be via a file input. There are however a number of other inputs that we can also configure, but they are...
What’s a Splunk Stand Alone (AIO) server?
In the last article about Splunk we spoke about the advantages that Splunk offers when working with big data volumes. But let's say that you want to see & feel like to have Splunk running in your environment, can you start small? Yes, you can, using what is called...
What is Splunk?
(I have no rights to use any official Splunk logos or images as stated in Splunk's policy on use of their image library, hence I depend completely on my design skills in Canva 😉 ) As we briefly mentioned in our Big Data article Splunk is one of the many pieces of...
What is a MAC address?
No, this MAC address has nothing to do with Apple. MAC stands for Media Access Control and operates at layer 2 of the OSI model. What does look like? A MAC address consists of six pairs of hexadecimal numbers. The format you will see it displayed the most is:...