topic Why is Splunk not receiving on splunktcp 9997? in Getting Data In

Why is Splunk not receiving on splunktcp 9997?

khagan — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:40:39 GMT

I have a Heavy Forwarder set to forward load balanced data to two Splunk indexers on 9997.

When I enable receiving on the indexers (via Settings -> Forwarding and Receiving -> Configure Receiving), no data is showing up.

Examining the splunkd.log on the forwarder and indexers shows the connection is being made with no errors.

If I enable a Data Input to listen to port 9997, I can see data showing up in the index, albeit cooked data, which isn't readable - so the data is making it to the Splunk server, but just not showing up when I configure it to receive from another Splunk.

What might be causing this?

Re: Why is Splunk not receiving on splunktcp 9997?

janderson19 — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:10:53 GMT

I'm not really sure how to receive from a forwarder over Splunk web, but if you go into inputs.conf you can make sure you're receiving over splunktcp. If not, you can change it to Splunktcp.

Re: Why is Splunk not receiving on splunktcp 9997?

somesoni2 — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:16:58 GMT

Can you provide the content of outputs.conf from your Heavy Forwarder? After enabling receiving on Forwarder, you would configure your forwarder to send data to those indexers on port 9997.

Re: Why is Splunk not receiving on splunktcp 9997?

khagan — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:30:04 GMT

[tcpout]
defaultGroup=LB_peers

[tcpout:LB_peers]
server=xx.xx.xx.xx:9997,xx.xx.xx.xx:9997

The Forwarder is already configured to send to Splunk on 9997.

Re: Why is Splunk not receiving on splunktcp 9997?

khagan — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:30:55 GMT

Inputs.conf has it receiving on [splunktcp:9997]

Re: Why is Splunk not receiving on splunktcp 9997?

janderson19 — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:36:45 GMT

Correct format is [splunktcp://:9997]

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.3/Admin/inputsconf

Re: Why is Splunk not receiving on splunktcp 9997?

khagan — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:48:21 GMT

Yes, sorry, that is the format it is in.

Re: Why is Splunk not receiving on splunktcp 9997?

rkirkw — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 17:35:58 GMT

For more troubleshooting info on receiving try this command:

splunk list inputstatus

This gives you a listing of every way an indexer is receiving data from each host and when

Hope this helps!!