topic Re: How to restart windows universal forwarder? in Getting Data In

How to restart windows universal forwarder?

Corey — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:32:04 GMT

How do you restart the windows universal forwarder after a post-install change in the configuration?

Re: How to restart windows universal forwarder?

Genti — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:24:26 GMT

C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin>splunk.exe restart
SplunkForwarder: Stopping (pid 2032)
Splunk> Take the sh out of IT.

Checking prerequisites...
        Checking mgmt port [8089]: open
        Checking conf files for typos...
All preliminary checks passed.

Starting splunk server daemon (splunkd)...

SplunkForwarder: Starting (pid 1780)
Done.

Re: How to restart windows universal forwarder?

Corey — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:22:11 GMT

Duh! Another approach is to restart the SplunkForwarder service. I didn't see the service because I had the service viewer open when I installed and didn't refresh the view - so I couldn't see the service listed.

Thanks for the quick response.