Getting Data In

How to troubleshoot why I am receiving no data from my universal forwarder?

gfaggiano
New Member

Okay... Here is my hangup. I've taken some training:
-What is Splunk
-Searching and Reporting
-Building Objects

But... All my training was dealing with an environment that was already set up and configured. I have no training for what I'm trying to do!

So I installed Universal Forwarder (newest available) on a Windows 7 workstation.
Default Ports

I've installed an instance of Splunk Enterprise on another workstation in the same domain.
I setup to listen on the same port (9997?) I can't remember the port number off the top of my head 😛
I made sure the services were running and did a netstat to make sure the ports were getting through. all good.

My problem is that I've tried setting up some data inputs, but i'm not sure I did it correctly because i'm getting no action from the forwarder.

Here's a simple rundown of what I want to forward (to get me started):

TCP bytes for:
25
80
110
443
8080

UDP bytes for:
443

Any guidance would be great!

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s2_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Take a look here as well for troubleshooting information.

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gfaggiano
New Member

Thank you all for your responses. I still don't know why the data I requested wasn't sent by the forwarder. Fortunately, I didn't end up needing it because the same data was coming in from the event logs. Although I am academically curious, I was able to bring closure to my issue.

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satishsdange
Builder
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somesoni2
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Did you created a outputs.conf file on forwarder to send data to Indexer? If a correct outputs.conf is created, the forwarder should send forwarder's internal logs to your Indexers (without needing to setup an inputs.conf). Once you see internal logs (index=_internal host=yourforwarder), then you can setup data inputs.

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Make sure Windows Firewall is not blocking the forwarder.

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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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gfaggiano
New Member

Thanks Rich. Firewall isn't the problem. No local firewall. Both client and "server" are inside the firewall.

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