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Warning Error Post Installing Splunk Universal Forwarder 9.0.3 version in Client Machine

anandhalagaras1
Contributor

Hi Team,

I have downloaded the 9.0.3 UF version Windows 64 bit and installed the Splunk UF in my Microsoft Windows server 2016 Data Center and started the services. Post which when i have try to check the Splunk status or do a restart of Splunk UF i am getting an warning message as below in the cmd prompt. So how to overcome this one.

Warning: overriding %SPLUNK_HOME% setting in environment ("C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\") with "C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder". If this is not correct, edit C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\etc\splunk-launch.conf

 

When i checked the Splunk-launch.conf file i can see as below:

# SPLUNK_HOME=C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder

 

And when i hit the %SPLUNK_HOME% in run it directly navigating to below directory 

C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin

And when i checked the environment variables i can see

SPLUNK_HOME as been set as C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin sohow to get rid of warning.

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @anandhalagaras1,

the  C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin folder isn't correct as SPLUNK_HOME, is there any pre-existent installation?

anyway, as hinted, change the splunk-launch.conf SPLUNK-HOE in C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\

and restart the forwarder.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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anandhalagaras1
Contributor

Can anyone kindly help on my request please.

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anandhalagaras1
Contributor

@gcusello Can you kindly help on my requirement please.

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anandhalagaras1
Contributor

@gcusello Can you help me on this as well.

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