topic Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ? in Deployment Architecture

What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

sunrise — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:38:17 GMT

Hi Splunkers,
I met the warning message in forwarder management which said "One or more apps are initializing download. Please refresh later to see the accurate status of these downloads".

Later I refreshed browser, but it was appeared again.
And I also restart splunk, but it was same.
What does this message mean ?
How is it not displayed ?

Thank you for your help.

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

mikelanghorst — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:28:29 GMT

I'm seeing this as well, even though all classes/apps show as successful.

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

rgaleone1 — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:07:35 GMT

sunrise - Have you attempted to restart the splunkforwarder to which the apps are being downloaded?

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

israelgutierrez — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:39:37 GMT

Also you can check Reload the Deployment server

/opt/splunk/bin/./splunk reload deploy-server

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

sunrise — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 01:08:30 GMT

I don't know why this happened. But in Splunk V6.0.1, that doesn't happen.

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

mikelanghorst — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:41:37 GMT

I still have it in 6.0.1, although all classes show ok

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

nurtdi — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 01:52:35 GMT

I have the same issue in Splunk v.6.0.3, "splunk reload deploy-server" and "splunk restart" did not help. As for suggestion: "Have you attempted to restart the splunkforwarder to which the apps are being downloaded?" - there is no easy way to find which forwarder is doing it...

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

wbfoxii — Fri, 02 May 2014 11:38:42 GMT

I am seeing this now in version 6.0.3.

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

aelliott — Wed, 07 May 2014 13:23:23 GMT

I am having this issue as well, in 6.0.3

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

jonathan_cooper — Wed, 14 May 2014 16:03:24 GMT

I am in version 6.1 and seeing this issue also.

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

jameshgibson — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:15:07 GMT

I managed to clear this message by deleting all the serverclasses and then re-adding them. This removed the messages and got the apps downloading again.

My guess is SPlunk gets confused as to what has changed on the forwarder(s) and isn't logging the error back correctly.

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

cald4 — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 19:54:47 GMT

Also happened to me; clearing /opt/splunk/etc/system/local/serverclass.conf and then running "splunk reload deploy-server" worked to get rid of the warning on the forwarder management web page. I'm running x86_64 v6.2.1 build 245427
I was just getting started, only had 2 server classes. I assume I'll be seeing this again.

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

Un10Mar01 — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 20:22:36 GMT

this is production testing.

Re: What does the warning message mean in forwarder management ?

echalex — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 09:10:41 GMT

I'm afraid this solution doesn't really fit most users. At least for me, with 500+ forwarders and some 100+ server classes.