topic Re: Splunk Stream: Why is streamfwd failing to start on Linux? in All Apps and Add-ons

Splunk Stream: Why is streamfwd failing to start on Linux?

sloshburch — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:23:07 GMT

streamfwd is working well on my Windows machines but not on my Amazon Linux AMI instances. Only using the 'defaultgroup' for Distributed Forwarder Management within Splunk Stream App UI. Pushing out the Stream TA with the Deployment Server.

Splunk is not running on root so I followed these instructions while logged in as the splunk process owner: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/StreamApp/latest/DeployStreamApp/InstallSplunkAppforStream#Set_Splunk_TA_stream_permissions

Seeing stuff like this in streamfwd.log (nothing catching my eye in splunkd.log): FATAL [139868534323072] (main.cpp:1149) stream.main - Failed to start streamfwd, the process will be terminated: No <stanza> found in <configuration>

I've also tried setting streamfwd.conf as follows to capture all interfaces:

[streamfwd]
    streamfwdcapture.0.interfaceRegex = .*

Anyone experienced this or have expertise on this? Thanks ahead of time!

Re: Splunk Stream: Why is streamfwd failing to start on Linux?

vshcherbakov_sp — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:44:34 GMT

do you have the inputs.conf configured for the Stream TA?

Re: Splunk Stream: Why is streamfwd failing to start on Linux?

sloshburch — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:10:01 GMT

I do! Sorry for not being clear on that, but I thought it was implied by the fact that I am in fact getting data from the Windows machines, just not the Linux ones.

In case it helps, here's what I'm rocking so far:

[streamfwd://streamfwd]
splunk_stream_app_location = https://awesomeurlhere:coolport/en-us/custom/splunk_app_stream/
stream_forwarder_id = 
index = cool_index_here

Re: Splunk Stream: Why is streamfwd failing to start on Linux?

vshcherbakov_sp — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 20:59:56 GMT

Sorry got sidetracked. Seems like it would be easier to troubleshoot this issue over webex. Please ping me directly or in the Stream hipchat room.

Re: Splunk Stream: Why is streamfwd failing to start on Linux?

sloshburch — Thu, 18 May 2017 16:06:47 GMT

So embarrassing but I forgot to put disabled = false in the inputs. Obviously changing that fixed this...