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Splunk Forwarder Service continually stops

gobofo
New Member

We have 2 Windows Servers (2008 and 2003), the Universal Splunk forwarder continually stops, every few hours.

  1. Where should I be looking to see what the cause is.

  2. Any known fixes or issues?

Thanks

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japrivacy
New Member

checking in the windows event application event logs, the splunk modular powershell.exe would die.

common logging error

but also my server has a local.meta path issue.

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mzorzi
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If that happens periodically I would check the Windows Event Logs

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jbsplunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

What version of the UF? Are there any messages in $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log around the time of the failure? What about in the windows event logs?

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