topic Re: Can't login when setting up a universal forwarder in Getting Data In

Can't login when setting up a universal forwarder

asdpoi — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:01:09 GMT

My freshly installed splunk server has by default listening enabled on port 9997.

When I try to configure a universal forwarder, using splunk add forward-server ip:9997, I'm getting a "Login failed" message.

I verified that the username and password are accurate, of an admin user that can log in to the web interface with them ( on port 8000).

I also verified that there are no blocks on port 9997 by successfully opening a telnet session to that port.

What am I doing wrong here? And how can I get more verbose details on what is causing the failure?

Re: Can't login when setting up a universal forwarder

mslvrstn — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:04:17 GMT

If it's a freshly installed forwarder, it probably still has default credentials.
Try "-auth admin:changeme" and then make sure you change the password.

Re: Can't login when setting up a universal forwarder

Ayn — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:05:26 GMT

When you're configuring the universal forwarder, the login details you are asked for are those of the local Splunk installation, not the credentials for logging into your central Splunk server. As such, unless you changed credentials from the default in the forwarder installation, the credentials you should provide are the default ones: admin/changeme.

Re: Can't login when setting up a universal forwarder

BrendanCO — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 22:12:27 GMT

Thank you guys! i was trying the web admin password also

Re: Can't login when setting up a universal forwarder

kaldurai — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 06:20:46 GMT

for username provide admin and password changeme..for fresh installation

Re: Can't login when setting up a universal forwarder

rogue_carrot — Tue, 15 May 2018 01:17:28 GMT

Thank-you for posting this question and answer. I was not sure what credentials they wanted. I entered my credentials for this website for instance thinking maybe that was the tokens I needed.