Installation

Universal forwarder

sumitsaha10
New Member

I have deployed Splunk on a CentOS machine and forwarder on Windows Server 2012 R2.

After installing the universal forwarder, the host is not showing up in 

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SinghK
Builder

In CentOS what ar you using as local firewall firewall-cmd or iptables? Have created the rules to accept connection there?

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

In what?  Please finish the question.

Is Splunk configured to listen on port 9997 (Settings->Forwarding and Receiving)?

Is the UF configured to send to Splunk?

Have you checked your firewall(s)?

 

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batears
Engager

nobody can help you if you don't answer questions 

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