Windows host and source types not shown in search

[thejohn]

I had to reinstall my universal forwarder on windows server and splunk stopped showing new messages. So deleted all messages of this host then I cleaned wineventlog index then reinstalled UF again because I thought that might force it. Now I don't see my server in hosts and all EventLog source types disappeared but when I search "index=wineventlog" I can see all new messages.

How can I re-add the server to hosts and how to old source types?

This is splunk light btw.

[thejohn · Accepted solution]

Ok I got it I think.
I copied authorize.conf from /etc/system/default to /etc/system/local on splunk light server and changed this line
srchIndexesDefault = main;os
to
srchIndexesDefault = wineventlog;main;os
for admin user.
After restart everything worked as it should.
I think there might be a bug in Windows Add-On not configuring correctly.

[thejohn]

Ok so I think I know what the problem is. By default splunk searches only main index I think. Windows Add-On uses wineventlog which is not searched. I set it up again so forwarder forwards to main index instead of wineventlog and success, the host and sourcetypes were shown. So now the question is how do I configure splunk light to also search wineventlog index. If you use splunk enterprise I think you just need to set up roles so that it is visible by your user. Don't know how to do this on light yet...

edit:
Also when I configured UF as deployment client I thought it will forward messages on its own, but it turns out you still need to add receiving server.

[pierre31]

I am having the same issue here too... all my linux host are showing. WinSrv 2012 showing but now win7.

[thejohn]

I restored splunk to snapshot just after install and repeated the installation of UF multiple times. First I specified only receiving server and again all logs went to wineventlog index but are not shown anywhere. Second I tried configuring UF as deployment client and server does not receive any messages. I am totally lost...