topic Re: Linux Forwarders not talking to Deployment Server in Getting Data In

Why are Linux Forwarders not talking to Deployment Server?

jordanperks — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:48:56 GMT

I have a lab setup in VMWare Workstation that has both Linux and Windows servers setup to talk to a Linux deployment server on port 8089 (default). The windows servers are talking to the deployment server, but the linux forwarders (both heavy and universal) are not. Thw windows servers are showing up in settings > forwarder management. Both windows and linux forwarders have the same configuration in deploymentclient.conf:

[target-broker:deploymentServer]
targetUri = 192.168.199.177:8089

I can ping with no problem. I have completely turned off iptables on I have gone through every log file I can find in /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/* and cannot find any issues. Does anyone know which log I should be looking at to find the issue? I am thinking I may be having a VMWare issue since I have set this up in production many times without issue.

Re: Linux Forwarders not talking to Deployment Server

martin_mueller — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:02:31 GMT

Any logs relating to DeploymentClient should be in splunkd.log.

Re: Linux Forwarders not talking to Deployment Server

jordanperks — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:09:14 GMT

Well, I have found the solution. Had to set the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network and then reboot the server.

Re: Linux Forwarders not talking to Deployment Server

mmukherjee — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 06:20:09 GMT

Can you please give a more detailed description of the fix. I think I have the same issue as posted above and I could not find this path "/etc/sysconfig/network".

Re: Linux Forwarders not talking to Deployment Server

muscafe — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 08:38:09 GMT

Hello,
i have a similaire problem , what is the hostname to add on /etc/sysconfig/network please?
thank u for your answer

Re: Linux Forwarders not talking to Deployment Server

anwarmian — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:35:16 GMT

Is that a forwarder on the syslog server?

Re: Linux Forwarders not talking to Deployment Server

samsplunks — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:44:13 GMT

If the hostname of your computer is "localhost", it won't even try to connect to the Deployment Server.