Getting error when trying to active the universal forwarder.

saadzaidi — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:58:34 GMT

Dear Members,

I'm new in splunk, i'm trying to forward the RHEL logs to the indexer. i've done all the necessary configuration to forward the logs, but didn't receive on the indexer. When i checked the status forward server, using ./splunk list forward-server command. It was showing inactive. Because of some file ownership.

Warning: Attempting to revert the SPLUNK_HOME ownership
Warning: Executing "chown -R splunkfwd:splunkfwd /opt/splunkforwarder"

So, I ran the below command to change the file ownership.

sudo chown -R splunkfwd:splunkfwd /opt/splunkforwarder.

After executing the above command, still i'm not receiving the logs and moreover, when again i'm trying to run this "./splunk list forward-server" command to check the status of forwarder, it will takes me to enter username and password again, when i'm entering the username and password its showing login failed.

NOTE: I've tried to login using both root and splunk user. But non of this worked.

Please help me out in this, what should i do to make it work.

Thank you.

topic Getting error when trying to active the universal forwarder. in Splunk Enterprise

Getting error when trying to active the universal forwarder.