Getting Data In

How to verify if Splunk Forwarder is receiving the data on a UDP port

ssankeneni
Communicator

How can I verify if my universal forwarder is receiving the data on the UDP port ? I don't see any thing in my splunkd logs.

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Ayn
Legend

Easiest is to run something like tcpdump, Wireshark or similar and see if traffic flows in on the port.

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Ayn
Legend

index=_internal group=per_source_thruput series=udp:514

ssankeneni
Communicator

I don't have access to the machine to install any new rpms. Can you please let me know is there any way i could find it through Splunk.

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