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Why is my deployment client showing as disabled and says splunkd needs to be up, but it already seems to be?

pipegrep — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:28:47 GMT

I'm troubleshooting a deployment client and I've gotten stuck;

Deploy server
$ /splunk/bin/splunk --version
Splunk 6.1.4 (build 233537)
Note: This server deploys apps successfully to 125+ clients.

Deploy client
$ /opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk --version

Splunk Universal Forwarder 6.1.5 (build 239630)

The problem; no deployments.

$ /opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk display deploy-client
Deployment Client is disabled.
This command [GET /services/messages/restart_required/] needs splunkd to be up, and splunkd is down.

$ service splunk status
Splunk status:
splunkd is running (PID: 4922).
splunk helpers are running (PIDs: 4923).

Other than the obvious need to upgrade, does this indicate a glaring mistake I'm missing or is this more subtle? Currently setting up log debugging to see if I can learn more.

Thanks.

Re: Why is my deployment client showing as disabled and says splunkd needs to be up, but it already seems to be?

pipegrep — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 17:37:45 GMT

Sorted it out. Client config had a missing parameter.

Re: Why is my deployment client showing as disabled and says splunkd needs to be up, but it already seems to be?

lguinn2 — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 21:44:55 GMT

The error message

This command [GET /services/.....] needs splunkd to be up, and splunkd is down.

could mean that splunkd is down, but it almost always means

"There was a syntax error in your command and the CLI was not smart enough to throw a decent error message. Or maybe splunkd didn't return a decent error code for the CLI to report back to you."

Basically - there is a typo.

Re: Why is my deployment client showing as disabled and says splunkd needs to be up, but it already seems to be?

vulnfree — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 19:10:24 GMT

What was the solution @pipegrep?

Re: Why is my deployment client showing as disabled and says splunkd needs to be up, but it already seems to be?

josiahv92 — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 04:14:57 GMT

Also, if its a new instance, make sure the management port 8089 is open on Splunk instance's firewall.

Re: Why is my deployment client showing as disabled and says splunkd needs to be up, but it already seems to be?

Thembekile — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 13:22:14 GMT

Did anyone ever find the solution to this problem. The whole missing parameter thing is not too helpful

Re: Why is my deployment client showing as disabled and says splunkd needs to be up, but it already seems to be?

reddsbaron — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:11:46 GMT

I have the same issue and even after enabling the deployment client via cli it still says its disabled. What was the fix for your issue?

Re: Why is my deployment client showing as disabled and says splunkd needs to be up, but it alrea...

DanielPi — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:04:56 GMT

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