topic Re: Splunk universal forwarder isnt sending ONE folder in Getting Data In

Splunk universal forwarder isnt sending ONE folder

rtalcik — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:09:12 GMT

So I have a seperate folder that was prebuilt from splunk universal forwarder.

The folder path is :

/opt/splunkforwarder/etc/apps/"MY folders HERE"

one of the folders under /apps IS sending

the other folder is not and all it has is a path of

/apps/NOT SENDING FOLDER/local/input.conf

inside inputs.conf I have

[monitor:///var/log/router/.log]
host_regex=router/(.).log
sourcetype=cisco
index=net
crcSalt=
disabled = 0

this is not monitoring the folder and NO logs are going into splunk

however in the correct folder that is sending i have
[monitor:///var/log/security.log]
sourcetype = seclog
index = sec
disabled = 0

I also have the following folders in the correct logs that i do not have in the no working log

default local metadata README.md static

was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction to help me figure out why one folder is sending but the other isnt.

Re: Splunk universal forwarder isnt sending ONE folder

manjunathmeti — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:31:03 GMT

I don't think it's something to do with apps. Configurations looks correct. Check user running splunk process has read permissions to log files in directory /var/log/router/.

If user has read permissions then check for any errors in splunkd logs in /opt/splunkforwarder/var/log/splunk/.

Re: Splunk universal forwarder isnt sending ONE folder

rtalcik — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:31:45 GMT

very good point I will do.

Re: Splunk universal forwarder isnt sending ONE folder

rtalcik — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:45:48 GMT

both have root access

Re: Splunk universal forwarder isnt sending ONE folder

rtalcik — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:03:44 GMT

permissions seem fine. they all have root accesss rw both ways

Re: Splunk universal forwarder isnt sending ONE folder

manjunathmeti — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:19:55 GMT

Is root running splunk process? Check splunkd logs /opt/splunkforwarder/var/log/splunk/splunkd.logs and also check if index "net" is created on indexer servers.

Re: Splunk universal forwarder isnt sending ONE folder

rtalcik — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:56:01 GMT

So i fixed this issue but investigating the errors in splunkd logs like manjuanthemeti said above.

This was resolved by finding out what the issue was and removing empty log files in the directory.