topic Re: Why am unable to uninstall Splunk universal forwarder? in Getting Data In

Why am unable to uninstall Splunk universal forwarder?

lexphumirat — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 21:47:56 GMT

When i try to uninstall Splunk universal forwarder from remove programs, i get this following error

splunk the minimum operating system versions required to support this installation of universalforwarder has not been met

so i am unable to uninstall or reinstall this.

this is a windows 2003 server R2 64bit service pack 2

Re: Why am unable to uninstall Splunk universal forwarder?

ddrillic — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 23:04:42 GMT

The following System requirements for use of Splunk Enterprise on-premises

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Re: Why am unable to uninstall Splunk universal forwarder?

lexphumirat — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 23:11:12 GMT

the software is already installed. I get this message when I am trying to uninstall it.

Re: Why am unable to uninstall Splunk universal forwarder?

ChrisG — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 23:34:02 GMT

Windows 2003 Server reached end of life in July 2015. No recent (or even not that recent) version of Splunk software would be tested or supported on that platform. What version of the universal forwarder are you running?

Re: Why am unable to uninstall Splunk universal forwarder?

lexphumirat — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 23:44:28 GMT

should be the latest one. 6.5.0 for 64bit and 6.2.2 for 32bit

Re: Why am unable to uninstall Splunk universal forwarder?

nmohammed — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:19:02 GMT

try to delete the registry entry for the universal Forwarder on the server -

should be here...
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\

look at each entry and you should see the product Name as Universal Forwarder, right click on the entry and delete it. that should uninstall the Forwarder.

Re: Why am unable to uninstall Splunk universal forwarder?

aaraneta_splunk — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 19:49:31 GMT

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