Deployment Architecture

Alert for Master License Server down

pdash
Path Finder

I want to set up an alert to notify when the master license server (one search head) goes down. What should I query for finding this out from an indexer that is pointing to it?

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dmillis
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Check out:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Admin/Aboutlicenseviolations#About_the_connection_be...

The following search should work:
index="_internal" source="*splunkd.log" "failed to transfer rows"

pdash
Path Finder

Correction: Its
index="_internal" source="*splunkd.log" "failed to send rows"

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