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Why am I getting error "SSL certificate generation failed" while starting the splunkd process on the universal forwarder?

kpavan — Wed, 20 May 2015 09:10:17 GMT

Hi All,

I'm unable to start the splunkd process on the universal forwarder and it's giving an error that SSL certificate generation failed. Could you please let me know if there any specific configuration issue?

Thanks!
Pavan

Re: Why am I getting error "SSL certificate generation failed" while starting the splunkd process on the universal forwarder?

jmallorquin — Wed, 20 May 2015 11:27:20 GMT

Hi,

Did you change the default certificate?
Did you review the splunkd.log file?

Re: Why am I getting error "SSL certificate generation failed" while starting the splunkd process on the universal forwarder?

jkuma39 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:05:22 GMT

In My case, i tried installing a new splunkforwader and started splunk and got below error. Can you please let me know what can be reason for this?

Splunk> CSI: Logfiles.

Checking prerequisites...
Checking mgmt port [8089]: open
ERROR: pid 13672 terminated with signal 11
SSL certificate generation failed.

Iinux Version: Linux lgdwd511 2.6.32-696.6.3.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 30 13:24:18 EDT 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: Why am I getting error "SSL certificate generation failed" while starting the splunkd process on the universal forwarder?

shirishkamat84 — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:56:33 GMT

Did anyone figured this out and identified a fix. I did not find any answers to this particular problem

Re: Why am I getting error "SSL certificate generation failed" while starting the splunkd process on the universal forwarder?

jwelch_splunk — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:53:17 GMT

If you are running AV try disabling it and see if that fixes it

Re: Why am I getting error "SSL certificate generation failed" while starting the splunkd process on the universal forwarder?

gesman_splunk — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:12:52 GMT

We had reports that antivirus services might cause that.

Check if there are any antivirus or similar resource-hungry services are running and try disabling them and restarting Splunk to test.

Also lack of resources - particularly memory could be generally related cause.

Re: Why am I getting error "SSL certificate generation failed" while starting the splunkd process on the universal forwarder?

splunkadunk5 — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:24:32 GMT

In my case it ended up being Cylance.