https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-forwarder-on-OSX/m-p/134000#M5047 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I installed the Splunk forwarder on OSX 10.9.1 and started the app, which too me to a web page localhost:8000 which failed to load any thing in the browser. I have trawled the splunk docs to find the manual process and run the following command as root</P> <P>/Applications/Splunk/bin/splunk add forward-server [Splunk server]:9997</P> <P>When it asks for the splunk username and password I put in the login for my Splunk server, which is working fine and has 2 PC splunk forwarders connected, but I get a "login failed" response.</P> <P>Should I just install the full Splunk install and create a forwarder in that.</P> <P>We have an enterprise license.</P> <P>Thanks in advance</P> Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:35:35 GMT rickwylie 2014-02-01T06:35:35Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-forwarder-on-OSX/m-p/134000#M5047 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I installed the Splunk forwarder on OSX 10.9.1 and started the app, which too me to a web page localhost:8000 which failed to load any thing in the browser. I have trawled the splunk docs to find the manual process and run the following command as root</P> <P>/Applications/Splunk/bin/splunk add forward-server [Splunk server]:9997</P> <P>When it asks for the splunk username and password I put in the login for my Splunk server, which is working fine and has 2 PC splunk forwarders connected, but I get a "login failed" response.</P> <P>Should I just install the full Splunk install and create a forwarder in that.</P> <P>We have an enterprise license.</P> <P>Thanks in advance</P> Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:35:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-forwarder-on-OSX/m-p/134000#M5047 rickwylie 2014-02-01T06:35:35Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-forwarder-on-OSX/m-p/134001#M5048 <P>The credentials are for the local Splunk forwarder, not your Splunk server. If you didn't change these the default values are "admin" with the password "changeme".</P> Sat, 01 Feb 2014 08:12:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-forwarder-on-OSX/m-p/134001#M5048 Ayn 2014-02-01T08:12:55Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-forwarder-on-OSX/m-p/134002#M5049 <P>Awesome thanks!</P> Sat, 01 Feb 2014 08:30:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-forwarder-on-OSX/m-p/134002#M5049 rickwylie 2014-02-01T08:30:09Z