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## Product - All Products

Many appliance vendor utilize Linux and BSD distributions as the foundation of the solution when configured to provide
syslog output these devices can be monitored using the common Splunk Nix TA.
Many appliance vendor utilize Linux and BSD distributions as the foundation of the solution. When configured to log via
syslog, these devices' OS logs (from a security perspective) can be monitored using the common Splunk Nix TA.

Note: This is not a replacement or alternative for use of the Splunk Universal forwarder on Linux and Unix. For server applications
the syslog only prevents full collection of events and metrics appropriate for security and operations use cases.
Note: This is NOT a replacement for or alternative to the Splunk Universal forwarder on Linux and Unix. For general-purpose
server applications, the Universal Forwarder offers more comprehensive collection of events and metrics appropriate for both
security and operations use cases.



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