Getting Data In

Scheduler not running?

bfeinberg
Engager

I am simply lost as to what is going on here. My splunk scheduler seems to have just stopped running. Restarting the services splunkd splunkweb seem to have no effect.

I looked at this wiki link and tried increasing the log level however nothing additional is shown

http://wiki.splunk.com/Community:TroubleshootingAlertScripts

In fact, no python.log is created, and scheduler.log has stopped being written to. I dont know how to proceed outside of reinstalling splunk, any thoughts?

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ww9rivers
Contributor

The question was posted so long ago, I don't know if a solution has already been found or no longer needed.

I just had the same problem when I tried to setup an alert with a scheduled saved search and it didn't work -- That led me to discover that the scheduler had completely stopped working for a while.

The cause in my case is that I setup the Splunk instance to be a dedicated search head, with the SplunkLightForwarder app enabled to forward data to the indexers. In enabling the light forwarder, its default/default-mode.conf file is activated and the stanza below is what disabled the scheduler:

# do not start the scheduler if in lwf mode
[pipeline:scheduler]
disabled_processors = LiveSplunks

Changing LiveSplunks to None has re-enabled the scheduler for me.

[edit]: I should say that I made a copy of the file in the light forwarder's local folder and changed the setting there. And that several Splunkers caution about changing the default-mode settings (http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/Deploy/Forwardercapabilities).

bfeinberg
Engager

No, I dont have a trial license, this is a full license of the software. General searches through the UI work properly and results are returned.

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jonuwz
Influencer

Has your trial license expired ?

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