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The time is extracted where the log data is parsed. This is on the indexer if you are using a lightweight forwarder, and on a forwarder if you are using a heavy forwarder. (Parsing the data is the essential difference between a light and heavy forwarding.)
I'm working through the requirements for the palo alto networks app and add-on. The guide says to use a heavy forwarder, but doens't say why...why use a heavy forwarder? Also, if the syslog-ng box has a heavy forwarder installed and is indexing as well as forwarding, how much data can I expect to be indexed locally? All of it? Configurable, for example, one day's worth of data?
For syslog-ng ; know what user the process runs as - this will set the default directory permissions (probably root). Make sure that either your HF user 'splunk' can read the log locations/files or that you set permissions in the pan.conf file. This is how the I set the perms in pan.conf.
Also for your syslog server, even though it isn't indexing data the syslog log files will still take up space and with a PA firewall this will grow quickly. I setup a script to run periodically to remove log files older than a couple of days.
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Only use the Heavy Forwarder when:
-Dropping a significant proportion of the data at source.
-Complex UI or addon requirements, e.g. DBconnect, Checkpoint, Cisco IPS.
-Complex (per-event) routing of the data to separate indexers or indexer clusters.
I know, it's quite a pickle, but the thing is the TA also makes API calls to fetch results.
Even if you installed the TA on the indexers you're still going to have to run a separate HF for the wilfdire are apature integrations. (you could probably get away with a stand-alone indexer with the TA, but not clustered).
I think this is one of those times where there are pro's and cons for both options. I know this TA took more config than most others to get working properly in our env (albeit an inherited mess).
Installing it per the Splunk spec simplified the process for us.
This explanation explains when using HF as a SYSLOG server.
If you already have a SYSLOG server, just put the UF into the SYSLOG server and transfer the logs to the indexer. There are many such cases.
It's generally good idea to only use Heavy Forwarders when they are running scripts/logic for retrieving data from remote APIs etc (like the AWS/Service Now/Office 365 add-on's etc) however, the bulk of the data collected by the PA apps is via syslog.
(Although there are some API requests to trigger some wildfire integration - but that's pretty lightweight)
The Universal Forwarder is a very lightweight Splunk implementation, and can not run TA's, so if you have a UF on that host you would want to remove it and install an HF over the top.
From a cursory view of the file system there is little difference, but the HF has the UI and python framework to configure/monitor the forwarding aspects.
A heavy forwarder does not do any 'indexing' as it's name suggests, it simply Forwards data to your Indexers.
(an HF can do some event pre-processing/transforming, but indexing always happens just on the indexers)
The Splunk_TA_paloalto is a TA which makes (if configured) outbound connections to various APIs provided by Palo Alto. It also performs extractions, provides lookups, wokflows and other configurations.
For this reason, you have to install this on a full Splunk installation, which in this case should be a Heavy Forwarder.
You COULD send syslog events to your syslog-ng server, and use a Universal Forwarder on the syslog-ng host and THEN send the data to an HF with the "Splunk_TA_paloalto" TA installed on it.
But it is just complexity, requires another host and adds no real value.
With all of the above said, and as @HiroshiSatoh comments below.
Commonly, a recommended approach is to use a Universal Forwarder on a syslog server - This would ordinarily be my recommendation too, however as a real-world user of PA I would consider this a special case.
PAs generate a LOT of syslog traffic, and there is a lot to be said for running a dedicated syslog server just for firewalls.
In this case I would suggest following the guidance from the documentation and use a Heavy Forwarder on the syslog-server and install the TA on the same system.
I have multiple heavy-forwarders and currently they are behind AWS route 53 DNS, and I am thinking if I get a benefit if I move the heavy forwarders behind loadbalancer. apperciate any feedback and if any related document about this highly appreciate it.
Splunk doesn't recommend setting up external load balance between forwarder (universal fwd in your case, I assume) and receiver (Intermediate Heavy fwd in your case, I assume). (see note on paragraph 1)
Hi All,
I'm currently in the process of integrating the forwarder with the SIEM system.
I've successfully installed the forwarder on my Ubuntu machine, and I also have administrative access to the SIEM platform. Could someone please provide guidance on how to forward logs from the source to the forwarder and then from the forwarder to the SIEM? If there's any documentation or a guide available, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance.
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I havent used the forwarder file setting for log ingestion yet. We use NXlog to monitor log files and have it send the logs to the Chronicle forwarder.
Their documentation explains how to use NXlog.
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But I can hit the frc-services-forwarders-services-forwarder (port 9244) on a server that is only a allocator. If I spoof the address for the cluster ie. add the cluster-id.ece-address.local to the allocator ip in the host file I can access the cluster anywhere I do this change.
This raise some security concerns, also that communication looks to be frc-services-forwarders-services-forwarder http only. Does the poxy terminate the tls connection and its http to the elasticsearch cluster or is the something missing.
So all network traffic is encrypted (provided each allocator host blocks 9244 access from external IPs, eg via iptables). In-memory traffic is unencrypted (but of course the allocator contains all the data unencrypted to local users anyway)
(It doesn't mention 9244 because it's intended to be blocked) It would probably be good if we linked to this from Security considerations Elastic Cloud Enterprise Reference [2.3] Elastic and also were more explicit on that page that other ports should be blocked (at least inbound), I think?
Hello, I am new to Openwrt and not at all familiar with the command line interface. I have installed OpenWrt version 21.02 on my TP-Link router. I am trying to configure the router as a DHCP forwarder as I have another device on my network as a DHCP server. I would like to do this through the Luci interface as I am not familiar with the command line.
I have spent several days going through forums to try and find info on how I would accomplice this task via the gui without success. I would appreciate any help that you can provide to guide me on how to configure my device so that DHCP addresses requests are forwarded to my DHCP server.
For testing purposes, I have it all on a single subnet and eventually when i get things working, I intend to use a VLAN. I did already try LuCI > Network> Interfaces > LAN [edit] > DHCP Server > Ignore Interface prior to posting on this forum but I could't get DHCP forwarding to work. None of the devices attached to the LAN would receive an address from the DHCP server.
If the DHCP server is on the same subnet, there is no need to do any "forwarding" at all -- it just needs to be online and enabled, and it should just work. I mentioned that you need to disable the OpenWrt DHCP server because you can only have a single DHCP server on a network.
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