Deployment Architecture

Splunk service active (exited) 8.2.2.0

risingflight143
Explorer

On one of my RHEL 7.9 server, i am seeing splunk service is Active:active(exited). i am using 8.2.2.0. please guide me to fix the issue.

[root@srv01 ~]# systemctl -l | grep -i splunk
splunk.service loaded active exited SYSV: Splunk indexer service

[root@srv01 ~]# systemctl status splunk.service
Active: active (exited)




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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

That's not much to work with so this answer will be very high-level.

1) Check splunkd.log for why Splunk exited.

2) Fix the cause of the exit.

3) Restart Splunk.

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