topic Re: Disable the Universal Forwarder Clients in Getting Data In

Disable the Universal Forwarder Clients

tlow — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:23:11 GMT

what is the best ways to disable the universal Forwarder Clients sending data to the indexer.

I tried deploying an apps with inputs.conf

[default]
disabled=1

to disable all inputs, so there is no data sending the indexer.

or could change the outputs.conf on the client using deployment server

want to able to disable the UF clients.

Re: Disable the Universal Forwarder Clients

lguinn2 — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:53:32 GMT

I think the easiest way to do this will be to disable the apps on the forwarders. On the deployment server, edit app.conf for each of the apps that are distributed to the UFs, adding the following

[install]
state = disabled

Then reload the deployment server so it will distribute the updated/disabled app to all the forwarders.

A disabled app is completely ignored, so this effectively disables all the inputs.conf and outputs.conf that are configured in apps. The only risk may be any UFs that have set inputs or outputs in etc/system/local - hopefully there are none of those in your environment.

Re: Disable the Universal Forwarder Clients

tlow — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:44:55 GMT

This stanza doesn't work, tried on UF 6.1.1 and Indexer 6.1.1

data still coming to indexer after pushed out the app, checked is on the UF client and restart the UF client but still getting data to the indexer

And this only disabled a particular apps in UF? IU?

i want to disable UF if it sending too much data or a least able to turn on/off as needed.