topic Re: splunkd service does not start when the server is rebooted in Monitoring Splunk

splunkd service does not start when the server is rebooted

wendyctlam — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:05:37 GMT

Hi,

I have a problem where splunkd services does not start at reboot of the server. The startup type is set to automatic. Can't find any error messages on this. Does anyone have any insight on this?

Wendy

Re: splunkd service does not start when the server is rebooted

mpaniagua_splun — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:09:38 GMT

Try this to find out more information about boot:

$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk display boot-start

If this is the output:

Init script is not installed (checked: /etc/init.d/splunk).

Init script is not configured to run at boot.

Run this:

$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk --enable boot-start

HTH.

Re: splunkd service does not start when the server is rebooted

TSTechJosh — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:17:10 GMT

Thank you for this response, it was exactly what I needed. I don't understand why this wasn't done as part of the install.

Re: splunkd service does not start when the server is rebooted

mpaniagua_splun — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:57:31 GMT

Oh and for Windows this applies (taken from docs.splunk.com):

By default, Splunk starts automatically when you start your Windows machine. You can configure the Splunk processes (splunkd and splunkweb) to start manually from the Windows Services control panel.

Re: splunkd service does not start when the server is rebooted

BenAveling — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:41:23 GMT

I think you mean ".../splunk enable boot-start"

And yes, I don't understand why this doesn't happen as part of the install - at the least it should be an option.

Re: splunkd service does not start when the server is rebooted

srikanth1213 — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:28:54 GMT

Hi, even we are facing the same issue but the output is fine when I run the command as shown below, can you please tell me by your exp what could be the cause for this. also we did setup the splunkd service startup type to be automatic.

E:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>splunk display boot-start
Windows services installed.
Windows services are configured to run at boot.

Re: splunkd service does not start when the server is rebooted

ddrillic — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:05:00 GMT

It needs root or sudo root permissions and therefore it's tricky to have it as part of the install (at least on linux).

Re: splunkd service does not start when the server is rebooted

srikanth1213 — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:20:50 GMT

Hi ddrillic , any thoughts to resolve the issue on windows, in this scenario when "splunk display boot-start" command is giving you the correct output ..

Re: splunkd service does not start when the server is rebooted

mhuang3 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 18:37:05 GMT

Does this mean "boot-start" is configured ?Thank you