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Failures to restart the UF in Windows

TouteSplunk
Engager

Hi! What are some common causes of failures to restart the Splunk Universal Forwarder in windows?

Thank you!

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @TouteSplunk .. As @gcusello suggested, you should provide us more details. 

to add one thing to the above list....

are you trying to push apps/config files from DS to a windows UF and the restart splunkd option is not working as you are expecting ah.. 

thanks and best regards,
Sekar

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @TouteSplunk,

could you better describe your issue?

what UF version?

on what windows?

how much RAM have you on yor UF?

What was the message you received?

In my experience, only one time an UF failedto start on Windows, there was not sufficient RAM.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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