topic Is the universal forwarder 8.0 supported on Windows 2012 R2? in Getting Data In

Is the universal forwarder 8.0 supported on Windows 2012 R2?

andy7707 — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:35:54 GMT

The Forwarder Manual 8.0's mention of system requirements links to the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual 8.0, which only lists 2016 and 2019. But I'm unclear if that just means that running the indexers/search heads are only supported on the newer windows, or if that means that the forwarder too is only supported on the newer version.

Has Windows 2012 R2 support been dropped from the Universal Forwarder 8.0?

Re: Is the universal forwarder 8.0 supported on Windows 2012 R2?

gcusello — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:50:08 GMT

Hi @andy7707,
No this version of Operative System is deprecated, as you can see at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/ReleaseNotes/DeprecatedFeatures

The last certified version on Windows 2012 R2 is 7.3.3.

Ciao.
Giuseppe

Re: Is the universal forwarder 8.0 supported on Windows 2012 R2?

andy7707 — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:00:37 GMT

Thank you. The "Removed operating Systems in version 8.0" section of that document is perfectly clear.

Re: Is the universal forwarder 8.0 supported on Windows 2012 R2?

citecpeterboard — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 04:04:55 GMT

A bug you might like to fix, if you run the installer silently, via msiexec.exe /i splunkforwarder-8.0.3-a6754d8441bf-x64-release.msi AGREETOLICENSE=yes /passive, then the 8.0.3 version of Splunk UF installs on Windows 2012 R2.

I haven't tried running the installer interactively, but I know it doesn't abort the install on 8.0.3 on the unsupported OS. I was testing an upgrade script that had 7.3.5 and 8.0.3 in the package, initially I had a bug in the selection of the right UF to install, and found that it installed 8.0.3 on a Windows 2012 R2 server fine.

Re: Is the universal forwarder 8.0 supported on Windows 2012 R2?

wfrankl2 — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:34:55 GMT

why did they bring it back in 8.2? But not retro back to 8.0 and 8.1?

Re: Is the universal forwarder 8.0 supported on Windows 2012 R2?

pellegrini — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:47:15 GMT

Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 is supported again from version 8.2.0, until current release as of today, version 9.0.0. According to both docs and download pages https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Installation/Systemrequirements