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Universal Forwarder not communicating to server

ghostlab
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I have an Alpine image with splunk forwarder installed in it. I am trying to monitor one log file from with in the container and log it to the splunk server.

Step 1: Base image with Alpine and unzipped splunkforwarder.tgz file

Step 2: Using this base image to dockerize my node application.

               RUN ../../../opt/splunk/bin/splunk start --accept-license --answer-yes --seed-passwd password

               RUN ../../../opt/splunk/bin/splunk add forward-server server-ip:9997 -auth admin:username

               RUN ../../../opt/splunk/bin/splunk add monitor ./logs -sourcetype logs

               RUN ../../../opt/splunk/bin/splunk restart

               RUN ../../../opt/splunk/bin/splunk enable boot-start #dont know if its needed

I am still not receiving any logs in the splunk server. Is there anything I need to do for the spluk forwarder to communicate with splunk-server from with in the container.

Thank you.

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