Deployment Architecture

How to enable UDP input for splunk LWF?

Alan_Bradley
Path Finder

Apparently enabling LWF turns off udp input. What are the step steps to enable it?

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matt
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Run the command

./splunk enable module input/UDP input/UDP enabled.

You need to restart the Splunk Server for your changes to take effect.

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You should instead enable it by creating a conf file default-mode.conf containing:

[pipeline:udp]
disabled = false

the_wolverine
Champion

Which version does this apply to? I ran it in 4.1.5 and Splunk returns a message that the command is deprecated:

sh-3.2# ./splunk enable module input/UDP This command is deprecated.

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

see other answer

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matt
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Run the command

./splunk enable module input/UDP input/UDP enabled.

You need to restart the Splunk Server for your changes to take effect.

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