Deployment Architecture

Splunkforwarder 9:.3 failing in docker desktop

bhupalbobbadi
Path Finder

We are trying to run the splunk forwarder local to fix few vulnerabilities and getting the following error message and stopped. Can you please help with fix for this?

 

 

Dockerfile: FROM splunk/universalforwarder:9:3

 

Commands run:

docker build -t suf .
docker run -d -p 9997:9997 -e "SPLUNK_START_ARGS=--accept-license" -e "SPLUNK_PASSWORD=changeme" --name uf suf

 

 

2025-04-01 06:40:50

2025-04-01 06:40:50 TASK [splunk_universal_forwarder : include_tasks] ******************************

2025-04-01 06:40:50 included: /opt/ansible/roles/splunk_universal_forwarder/tasks/../../../roles/splunk_common/tasks/check_for_required_restarts.yml for localhost

2025-04-01 06:40:50 Tuesday 01 April 2025  13:40:50 +0000 (0:00:00.045)       0:00:19.675 *********

2025-04-01 06:41:23 FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Check for required restarts (5 retries left).

2025-04-01 06:41:23 FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Check for required restarts (4 retries left).

2025-04-01 06:41:23 FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Check for required restarts (3 retries left).

2025-04-01 06:41:23 FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Check for required restarts (2 retries left).

2025-04-01 06:41:23 FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Check for required restarts (1 retries left).

2025-04-01 06:41:23

2025-04-01 06:41:23 TASK [splunk_universal_forwarder : Check for required restarts] ****************

2025-04-01 06:41:23 fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {

2025-04-01 06:41:23     "attempts": 5,

2025-04-01 06:41:23     "changed": false,

2025-04-01 06:41:23     "changed_when_result": "The conditional check 'restart_required.status == 200' failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (restart_required.status == 200): 'dict object' has no attribute 'status'. 'dict object' has no attribute 'status'"

2025-04-01 06:41:23 }

2025-04-01 06:41:23

2025-04-01 06:41:23 MSG:

2025-04-01 06:41:23

2025-04-01 06:41:23 GET/services/messages/restart_required?output_mode=jsonadmin********8089NoneNoneNone[200, 404];;; failed with NO RESPONSE and EXCEP_STR as Not supported URL scheme http+unix

2025-04-01 06:41:23

2025-04-01 06:41:23 PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************

2025-04-01 06:41:23 localhost                  : ok=68   changed=2    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=81   rescued=0    ignored=0  

2025-04-01 06:41:23

2025-04-01 06:41:23 Tuesday 01 April 2025  13:41:23 +0000 (0:00:33.184)       0:00:52.859 *********

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dural_yyz
Motivator

Try adding this additional ARG on startup - I don't know the syntax for docker so google it please.

 

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