Distributed Management Console not visible at all.

[ccsfdave]

Greetings,

I am currently in the Splunk 6.4 Administration class and we are working with the DMC quite a bit. I didn't even know the DMC existed in Splunk before because the DMC does not show in my environment at all. I am running v.6.3.3. Could there be a permission issue with my admin or do I need to enable or install something?

Thanks,

Dave

[ccsfdave · Accepted solution]

Yeah so it was the most bone-head of solutions. The app (which thank you to @burwell for making me aware it is an app) was not visible. See my comment in this thread that shows that I do have the app installed. Fifth column shows it is not visible.

Sorry all. I'm embarrassed

[burwell]

You could see if somehow DMC is not enabled.

1. go to the apps page.. en-US/manager/search/apps/local
2. Look for Distributed Management Console

[ccsfdave]

sigh yeah it's installed

[burwell]

Hi. What happens if you click on permissions?

Note that you have permissions on the other apps but you don't for this app.

That might give you a clue.

[burwell]

Hi. Could you be trying on a search head cluster member? It won't be visible there.

It has to be on a member that is not part of SHC.

[ccsfdave]

I only have one splunk enterprise search head so not a clustering issue.

[devenjarvis]

According to http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.3/DMC/DMCoverview you can only see the DMC if you are assigned the Splunk Enterprise admin role.

Are you able to first validate your role? Likely under Settings -> Users and Authentication -> Access Controls - > Users -> Your User

[ccsfdave]

Nope, not a user issue. If you look at the picture above, circled at the top, I am trying from the admin user.