Help with installing two universal forwarders on the same Windows box - service shutting down on second install

[pfabrizi]

I need to install 2 separate universal forwarders on the same Windows box. I have the install built, one via msi and the other via scripted process. On one install the service shuts down. I connected both services to 1 deployment server and that seemed fine, when I change the deployment client to point to the other deployment server the service also shuts down. Here is the log where you see it removing the and then splunkd restarting. ??

09-20-2017 12:29:54.412 -0400 INFO DeployedApplication - Removing app=SplunkTAwindows at='C:\program files\splunk-PI\etc\apps\SplunkTAwindows'
09-20-2017 12:29:54.537 -0400 WARN BundlesUtil - C:\program files\splunk-PI\etc\apps\SplunkUniversalForwarder\metadata\local.meta already exists but with different casing: C:\Program Files\splunk-PI\etc\apps\SplunkUniversalForwarder\metadata\local.meta
09-20-2017 12:29:54.537 -0400 WARN BundlesUtil - C:\program files\splunk-PI\etc\system\metadata\local.meta already exists but with different casing: C:\Program Files\splunk-PI\etc\system\metadata\local.meta
09-20-2017 12:29:54.552 -0400 WARN BundlesUtil - C:\program files\splunk-PI\etc\apps\learned\metadata\local.meta already exists but with different casing: C:\Program Files\splunk-PI\etc\apps\learned\metadata\local.meta
09-20-2017 12:29:54.552 -0400 WARN DC:DeploymentClient - Restarting Splunkd...
09-20-2017 12:29:54.552 -0400 INFO HttpPubSubConnection - Running phone uri=/services/broker/phonehome/connection10.210.147.1508090L74B00-PC0ETLVM.prod.travp.netL74B00-PC0ETLVM22D4D347-CE64-48BC-A1F0-352E78032799
09-20-2017 12:29:55.956 -0400 INFO PipelineComponent - Performing early shutdown tasks
09-20-2017 12:29:55.956 -0400 INFO loader - Shutdown HTTPDispatchThread
09-20-2017 12:29:55.956 -0400 INFO ShutdownHandler - Shutting down splunkd
09-20-2017 12:29:55.956 -0400 INFO ShutdownHandler - shutting down level "ShutdownLevelBegin"
09-20-2017 12:29:55.956 -0400 INFO ShutdownHandler - shutting down level "ShutdownLevel_FileIntegrityChecker"

[MousumiChowdhur · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Have you created two different folders under Program Files and installed Splunk under those? Also, have you used two different ports for the two different instances?

Thanks.

[pfabrizi]

I think I got past this issue. I was trying to test that both services (reporting to different deployment servers) can co-exist on the same box and that a deployment push to one will not impact the other service. We have multiple instances of SPLUNK managed by different area's, so we don't want them impacting each other.