How do I manually activate the SplunkForwarder service for a universal forwarder on Windows 7 (32bit)?

[hkizuka]

I have an issue with my forwarder in Windows 7 (32bit).

After I installed a Universal forwarder by .msi, indexer did not receive any information from the forwarder.
Below is what I get through a command via cmd.

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splunk list forward-server -auth xxx:xxxx
Active forwards:
            None
Configured but inactive forwads:
            XX.XXX.X.XX:9997

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I've rebooted SplunkForwarder Service a couple times, but the results were same.
Would you tell me how to manually activate the forwarder?

[Richfez · Accepted solution]

Could you run down this checklist lguinn created a while back? If you find it helpful, please be sure to upvote that answer!

If that doesn't take care of it, please post back with what you've tried.

[hkizuka]

thank you for your great support!!