I’m running a session at Splunk’s upcoming user conference called “Reports that got Splunk users promoted.” I already have lots of examples of great reports, dashboards and the like that various Splunk users built and had a big impact – many from the hundreds of SplunkLive user presentations over the last few years. But I would love to feature any others that any of you would like to share.

Fellow Security-conscious Splunkers, Beginning in Splunk 4.1.4, a new option, ‘allowRemoteLogin’, has been added to server.conf to better control access to Splunk’s management port (TCP port 8089 by default).

We're "all over the place" this week! We'll be chatting about how to make reporting a whole lot faster than you think it can be, helping you understand why the *NIX App doesn’t work on HP-UX quite yet, and Whats the deal with Apache–why doesn't it syslog the http access log. Oy Vey! Questions, Answers, News and Views.