https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/IndexProcessor-quot-Waiting-for-HTTPServer-to-start-quot-when/m-p/364384#M66356 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I'm running splunk in a distributed environment and the web console for creating HEC tokens presented various issues that lead me to creating them using config files as per the documentation. However with my new token configuration (it's fine without it) the splunk service will not start and the last log found in <CODE>$SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log</CODE> is: </P> <P>INFO IndexProcessor - initClustering (peer): Waiting for HTTPServer to start...</P> <P>here is the config I added in <CODE>$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/splunk_httpinput/local/inputs.conf</CODE>:</P> <PRE><CODE>[http://&lt;token_name&gt;] description = ... disabled = 0 index = &lt;index_name&gt; sourcetype = ... token = &lt;token_value&gt; </CODE></PRE> <P>I'll note that the index name I used isn't actually an existing index, and I realise I'll have to configure the index before using it but even with that line commented out, I get the same issue.</P> <P>Any help would be greatly appreciated and of course, I'd be happy to help out with more info wherever needed.</P> <P>Thanks</P> Mon, 12 Feb 2018 03:39:03 GMT packland 2018-02-12T03:39:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/IndexProcessor-quot-Waiting-for-HTTPServer-to-start-quot-when/m-p/364384#M66356 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I'm running splunk in a distributed environment and the web console for creating HEC tokens presented various issues that lead me to creating them using config files as per the documentation. However with my new token configuration (it's fine without it) the splunk service will not start and the last log found in <CODE>$SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log</CODE> is: </P> <P>INFO IndexProcessor - initClustering (peer): Waiting for HTTPServer to start...</P> <P>here is the config I added in <CODE>$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/splunk_httpinput/local/inputs.conf</CODE>:</P> <PRE><CODE>[http://&lt;token_name&gt;] description = ... disabled = 0 index = &lt;index_name&gt; sourcetype = ... token = &lt;token_value&gt; </CODE></PRE> <P>I'll note that the index name I used isn't actually an existing index, and I realise I'll have to configure the index before using it but even with that line commented out, I get the same issue.</P> <P>Any help would be greatly appreciated and of course, I'd be happy to help out with more info wherever needed.</P> <P>Thanks</P> Mon, 12 Feb 2018 03:39:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/IndexProcessor-quot-Waiting-for-HTTPServer-to-start-quot-when/m-p/364384#M66356 packland 2018-02-12T03:39:03Z