topic Re: Deployment Monitor Not Back Filling Data in Deployment Architecture

Deployment Monitor Not Back Filling Data

nmace — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:04:41 GMT

I need to use the Deployment Monitor in Splunk 4.2.x to see what my usage info looks like historically. However when I go into DM (after enabling it), there is no data in the dashboard. So I go to the Backfill Data tab and tell it to Backfill Summary Indexes. I let that run overnight. This morning my DM Dashboard is still empty. I don't see anything obvious in the logs....what am I doing wrong? I'd really like this feature to work.

Edit: Actually when I go to the License Usage tab I do get this:

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Re: Deployment Monitor Not Back Filling Data

araitz — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:40:45 GMT

The Splunk Deployment Monitor that ships with 4.3 has a "add backfill jobs" user interface that makes adding backfill that much easier. A forthcoming version that will be uploaded to Splunkbase soon will also allow you visibility into the progress of the backill jobs.

Re: Deployment Monitor Not Back Filling Data

nmace — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:23:56 GMT

So one solution would be to update to 4.3? Hmm....I need to do that anyway.

Re: Deployment Monitor Not Back Filling Data

nmace — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:39:45 GMT

OK, I've updated to 4.3. It still does the same thing when I go to "License Usage". If I try to backfill the data on the "Backfill Data" tab it won't add the job to the staged jobs. I click on "Add Jobs" and nothing happens. No errors....nothing.

Re: Deployment Monitor Not Back Filling Data

araitz — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:07:41 GMT

Which browser and operating system are you using?