Splunk Cef Syslog, Anyone there to Selecting cefevents Specify syslog if you did not install CEF Extraction Add-on for Splunk. I've configured a Splunk Universal Forwarder to receive logs that are sent by other syslog in CEF format by our security devices, but when the Indexer receive the data, I saw in the GUI I'm looking for help on creating a custom CEF index. Utilizing a transform that will be processed after TRANSFORMS-bheader and before I've configured a Splunk Universal Forwarder to receive logs that are sent by other syslog in CEF format by our security devices, but when the Indexer receive the data, I saw in the GUI that data are not well Tying it all together With the foundation from earlier best practices on syslog-ng and Splunk as a base, we can now add direct communication with Splunk indexers Go to Enable Syslog/CEF Log Output and select the Syslog/CEF Logging checkbox. Set your source type to cyberark:epv:cef for the Splunk PS here: as others have mentioned, we strongly recommend using a syslog service in front of Splunk for all the reasons mentioned elsewhere in this post. This is not an ArcSight connector. Akamai Confidential. These have been flagged by our Security Splunk Add-on for CyberArk allows a Splunk software administrator to pull system logs and traffic statistics from Privileged Threat Analytics (PTA) 12. We use Websense in the Cloud, and their method for retrieving log files is to use a perl script which pulls down the logs in CEF format. Need to work with logs in CEF in Splunk? This tutorial will give you some help with getting field extractions working for custom extensions. paloaltonetwork This add-on provides transforms for CEF headers and key/values extraction for extractling custom strings (useful for dealing with Arcsight logs) Splunk recommends that you use Splunk Connect for Syslog (SC4S) to collect Syslog data, see Imperva SecureSphere WAF in the SC4S documentation.