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Updating Forwarder Credentials

sbgoldberg13
Explorer

Hi all.  We received a bulletin that our UF certificates were expiring.  I downloaded the credentials package and installed them per documentation on my deployment server using <...install app...-update 1...>

That appears to have updated the APPS 100_xxxx_splunkcloud folder/files but my question is:

1.  Doesn't the DEPLOYMENT-APPS 100_xxxx_splunkcloud folder/files need to be updated to get the updated credentials to all of my UF's?

2.  How can I validate the new certificate date on my Window's UF's and on my HF's?

Thanks in advance.

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edhealea
Path Finder

Question #2

This won't tell you the version but will indicate whether the new package is up to date.

The fwd_config field will tell you either it is the "legacy" or "new" package.

index=_internal source=*metrics.log group=tcpout_connections name=splunkcloud*
| stats latest(_time) AS _time latest(name) AS name by host
| rex field=name "(?<output_group>.+?)\:"
| eval fwd_config=if(output_group="splunkcloud","legacy","new")
| stats count by _time host output_group fwd_config
| reltime
| fields _time reltime host output_group fwd_config
| sort 0 fwd_config

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sbgoldberg13
Explorer

@woodcock  Hi Woodcock.  Any suggestions you can offer on my post would be appreciated!  Thanks.

 

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