topic Why is Splunkd daemon not responding trying to use the DB Connect app to connect to my SQL Server 2014? in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-Splunkd-daemon-not-responding-trying-to-use-the-DB/m-p/164741#M98109 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I'm trying to use the DBCONNECT app to connect to my SQL Server 2014 instance. I have installed the app successfully but when I try to create a connection and click on Save it throws an error of "Encountered the following error while trying to update: Splunkd daemon is not responding: (u'Error connecting to /servicesNS/nobody/dbx/dbx/databases/namehere: The read operation timed out',)"</P> <OL> <LI>Splunk and the SQL server are on the same server</LI> <LI>No firewall enabled</LI> <LI>SQL configured to listen on 1433 for all IP's</LI> <LI>Tried a combination of all IP's for host</LI> <LI>Credentials are valid</LI> </OL> <P>Please assist me...</P> Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:19:48 GMT bbrinegar 2014-10-16T00:19:48Z Why is Splunkd daemon not responding trying to use the DB Connect app to connect to my SQL Server 2014? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-Splunkd-daemon-not-responding-trying-to-use-the-DB/m-p/164741#M98109 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I'm trying to use the DBCONNECT app to connect to my SQL Server 2014 instance. I have installed the app successfully but when I try to create a connection and click on Save it throws an error of "Encountered the following error while trying to update: Splunkd daemon is not responding: (u'Error connecting to /servicesNS/nobody/dbx/dbx/databases/namehere: The read operation timed out',)"</P> <OL> <LI>Splunk and the SQL server are on the same server</LI> <LI>No firewall enabled</LI> <LI>SQL configured to listen on 1433 for all IP's</LI> <LI>Tried a combination of all IP's for host</LI> <LI>Credentials are valid</LI> </OL> <P>Please assist me...</P> Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:19:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-Splunkd-daemon-not-responding-trying-to-use-the-DB/m-p/164741#M98109 bbrinegar 2014-10-16T00:19:48Z Re: Why is Splunkd daemon not responding trying to use the DB Connect app to connect to my SQL Server 2014? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-Splunkd-daemon-not-responding-trying-to-use-the-DB/m-p/164742#M98110 <P>Had the sam problem running DBX 1.1.5 on Splunk 6.1.4.</P> <P>When I reverted back to DBX 1.1.4 it worked.</P> Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:58:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-Splunkd-daemon-not-responding-trying-to-use-the-DB/m-p/164742#M98110 joonradley 2014-11-11T08:58:43Z