Splunk Enterprise forwarders must be configured with Indexer Acknowledgement enabled.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>To prevent the loss of data during transmission, a handshake acknowledgement between the sender and the recipient may need configured.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-221936r961863_rule
- Severity
- Low
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
If the server is not a forwarder, this check is N/A.
In the Splunk installation folder, edit the following file in the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local folder:
outputs.conf