topic Re: Alert when Splunk Universal Forwarder stops working/if uninstalled in Getting Data In

Alert when Splunk Universal Forwarder stops working/if uninstalled

walterkobayashi — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:53:35 GMT

Hello,

How can I get alerts when Splunk UF is uninstalled on a Windows Machine? Or even if the SplunkForwarder Service is Stopped?
Is there anyway?

Re: Alert when Splunk Universal Forwarder stops working/if uninstalled

swong_splunk — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:47:54 GMT

You can find a list of forwarders in the monitoring console under Settings, monitoring console (or DMC for older versions), then select Forwarders, Forwarders: deployment. In the Status and Configuration section, open the report in search (magnifying glass icon). Once in the search mode, you can adjust the search query to your specific needs and Save As an alert.

Re: Alert when Splunk Universal Forwarder stops working/if uninstalled

ddrillic — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 01:06:03 GMT

Start maybe with the generic query -

    | metadata type=hosts index=* 
    | eval host=lower(host) 
    | eval _time=recentTime 
    | sort host, _time 
    | stats latest(_time) as recentTime by host 
    | eval LAST=strftime(recentTime,"%a %m/%d/%Y-%T %Z(%z)"), DAYS_AGO=round((recentTime-now())/86400,0)