topic Re: Distributed Management Console not visible at all. in Monitoring Splunk

Distributed Management Console not visible at all.

ccsfdave — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 09:03:53 GMT

Greetings,

I am currently in the Splunk 6.4 Administration class and we are working with the DMC quite a bit. I didn't even know the DMC existed in Splunk before because the DMC does not show in my environment at all. I am running v.6.3.3. Could there be a permission issue with my admin or do I need to enable or install something?

Thanks,

Dave

Re: Distributed Management Console not visible at all.

devenjarvis — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:27:35 GMT

According to http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.3/DMC/DMCoverview you can only see the DMC if you are assigned the Splunk Enterprise admin role.

Are you able to first validate your role? Likely under Settings -> Users and Authentication -> Access Controls - > Users -> Your User

Re: Distributed Management Console not visible at all.

burwell — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:48:22 GMT

Hi. Could you be trying on a search head cluster member? It won't be visible there.

It has to be on a member that is not part of SHC.

Re: Distributed Management Console not visible at all.

ccsfdave — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:44:28 GMT

Nope, not a user issue. If you look at the picture above, circled at the top, I am trying from the admin user.

Re: Distributed Management Console not visible at all.

ccsfdave — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:44:51 GMT

I only have one splunk enterprise search head so not a clustering issue.

Re: Distributed Management Console not visible at all.

burwell — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:02:11 GMT

You could see if somehow DMC is not enabled.

go to the apps page.. en-US/manager/search/apps/local
Look for Distributed Management Console

Re: Distributed Management Console not visible at all.

ccsfdave — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 03:48:21 GMT

sigh yeah it's installed

Re: Distributed Management Console not visible at all.

ccsfdave — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 08:12:07 GMT

Yeah so it was the most bone-head of solutions. The app (which thank you to @burwell for making me aware it is an app) was not visible. See my comment in this thread that shows that I do have the app installed. Fifth column shows it is not visible.

Sorry all. I'm embarrassed

Re: Distributed Management Console not visible at all.

burwell — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 20:19:52 GMT

Hi. What happens if you click on permissions?

Note that you have permissions on the other apps but you don't for this app.

That might give you a clue.