Why my Index=”main” host=* command no results

[holowolf3500]

I am learning splunk for the first time in my course, I had this task of setting up 4 VMs through VMware workstation , 1 being controller a Centos GUI, and the other 3 being agents centos CLI. I went through the configuration of the VMs they all ping each other fine. I SSH the splunk onto the 4 VMs using mobaxterms. After creating the 9997 port on the controller and saving the port I configured each agent to have their agents ip address forward to the port of my controller. After going through my lab at the last part I had to type in an input Index=”main” host=* | table host | dedup host this had no results I was told if nothing popped up I would to troubleshoot by rebooting my vm and my host system but that didn't fix it would love some insights

[isoutamo]

Hi

As this sounds like you are asking answer for your course lab I just give pointers to you where you could find the answers.

• https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Forwarder/9.1.1/Forwarder/Enableareceiver
• https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.1.1/Data/WhatSplunkcanmonitor
• https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.1.1/Forwarding/Aboutforwardingandreceivingdata

I suppose that also your course material should give the answer what is missing/wrong on your configuration and how to debug it.

On comment for security. You should never run UF as a root on source node. Also don't use root as a splunk's internal admin user and never use the same password than you have in OS level.

r. Ismo