topic Re: Determine if a Splunk daemon is down remotely in Splunk Dev

Determine if a Splunk daemon is down remotely

bruceclarke — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:18:23 GMT

Hi all,

Is there an easy way to poll for a Splunk daemon's status remotely from C#? The use case is that we are running searches via the SplunkSDK for C#, and we want to display an error message if any of our search peers are down.

Thanks!

Re: Determine if a Splunk daemon is down remotely

yannK — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 04:04:07 GMT

Telnet on management port 8089

Re: Determine if a Splunk daemon is down remotely

grijhwani — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 19:54:07 GMT

Ideally you would use a contructor for "http://{yourserver}:8089/" or "https://{yourserver}:8089/" (depending on whether you are using SSL or not, and if not, why not?).

One of those two will respond with meaningful XML if the service is up, running, and behaving properly.

Re: Determine if a Splunk daemon is down remotely

grijhwani — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:40:56 GMT

Of course it goes without saying that if you have changed altered the default port setting you have to account for it.