From d9c2bc56c92b7437c8e73c58a29808dcd6eb568b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mbonsack Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:14:17 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update index.md --- docs/sources/nix/index.md | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/sources/nix/index.md b/docs/sources/nix/index.md index 2dc0416..7be21b0 100644 --- a/docs/sources/nix/index.md +++ b/docs/sources/nix/index.md @@ -2,11 +2,12 @@ ## 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.