topic Re: How to start an installed forwarder on my Pi Zero? in Splunk Enterprise

How to start an installed forwarder on my Pi Zero?

dr5mn — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:59:38 GMT

Hi all

My first post on this Community. I am a veteran of another BI tool that starts with a Q, and very keen to learn new tools and play with new toys!

I scanned on community but could not find a relevant answer, so please forgive if this is not a new subject.

I installed a forwarder on my Pi Zero, but cannot start it. Downloaded the ARM version with

sudo wget -O splunkforwarder-8.2.5-77015bc7a462-Linux-armv8.tgz "https://download.splunk.com/products/universalforwarder/releases/8.2.5/linux/splunkforwarder-8.2.5-77015bc7a462-Linux-armv8.tgz"

Then untarred it:

sudo tar -xvzf splunkforwarder-8.2.5-77015bc7a462-Linux-armv8.tgz

Then tried to start:

sudo ./splunk start --accept-license

I just get this weird error message. No idea how to proceed.

Re: How to start an installed forwarder on my Pi Zero?

PickleRick — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:10:41 GMT

You downloaded a ARMv8 version of the UF package whereas Pi Zero is based on ARMv6 hardware if I remember correctly. I don't think there's a (relatively modern) version of UF available for ARMv6.

If you want to gather logs from this system you should rather use some syslog daemon to send the events to tcp or udp input on your indexer/forwarder.

Re: How to start an installed forwarder on my Pi Zero?

dr5mn — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:11:15 GMT

Thanks. Would like some examples of "some syslog daemon" 🙂

Re: How to start an installed forwarder on my Pi Zero?

PickleRick — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:24:00 GMT

If I see correctly, it looks like raspbian.

It should provide both syslog-ng as well as rsyslog. Use whichever you like. 😉

But seriously - they differ a bit in more sophisticated functionality and advanced configuration syntax but for a simple use case of forwarding system logs to external collector they should be equally good.