topic Re: Troubleshooting Splunk in Knowledge Management

Troubleshooting Splunk

mjlsnombrado — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 08:38:04 GMT

Hi everyone

Can I ask for useful troubleshooting commands for example restart of services, licenses check, etc ?

Thanks in advance 🙂

Re: Troubleshooting Splunk

deepashri_123 — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 08:55:14 GMT

Hey@mjlsnombrado,

You can use btool command to check configuration files that are being used.
You can refer these documents for further reference:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/Troubleshooting/Usebtooltotroubleshootconfigurations
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/Troubleshooting/IntrototroubleshootingSplunk
Let me know if this helps!!

Re: Troubleshooting Splunk

vijithv — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:55:45 GMT

Hi, the basic commands that help to start off splunk are,

splunk help - display usage summary

splunk help display the details of a specific object

splunk [start | stop | restart] - Start, stop and restart splunk
splunk start --accept-license - automatically accept the license without prompt
splunk status -display the splunk process status
splunk show splunkd-port - show the port that the splunkd listens on
splunk show web-port - show the port that splunk web listens on
splunk show servername - show the servername of this instance
splunk show default-hostname - show the default host name used for all data inputs

and this below link have the reference to CLI commands for troubleshooting
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/Troubleshooting/CommandlinetoolsforusewithSupport

Re: Troubleshooting Splunk

mjlsnombrado — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:18:09 GMT

It helps thanks 🙂

Re: Troubleshooting Splunk

mjlsnombrado — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:19:46 GMT

Thanks for the help 🙂