Deployment Architecture

Not being able to forward data from Windows UF to Splunkcloud

dannyze
Explorer

I am having trouble forwarding data to Splunk cloud from a Windows host. Previously, Linux deployments gave no issues.

Seeing the following error, which I have researched and have not come to any conclusions.

TcpOutputProc - 'sslCertPath' deprecated; use 'clientCert' instead

The cert path itself looks good until further down the splunkd.log where the unix convention of forward slashes causes another error.

ERROR SSLCommon - Can't read certificate file C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\etc/apps/app/default/app_server.pem errno=33558530 error:02001d23562:system library:fopen:No such file or directory

Would like to know ways this has been solved before.
Thank you

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esix_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Have you tried getting the latest UF package from your Splunk Cloud stack, or Splunk Administrator? I would start there...

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dannyze
Explorer

I am using UF version 8.0.2 and Splunk cloud is version 7.2.9

Noted here, an X in a cell indicates
that this version of forwarder can
send event data to the corresponding
version of indexer.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Forwarder/8.0.3/Forwarder/Compatibilitybetweenforwardersandind...

According to the docs, it should be compatible

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