Monitoring Splunk

monitor universal forwarder agent license expiry date

kannu
Communicator

Dear splunkers ,

I want to monitor my universal forwarder agent license expiry date .

I am able to monitor it for linux system using scripted input on "openssl x509 -in /opt/splunkforwarder/etc/auth/server.pem -noout -enddate"

But how to do the same with windows system , please help

Thanks
Manish Kumar

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harsmarvania57
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Hi,

You can run below command

"C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\splunk.exe" cmd openssl x509 -in "C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\etc\auth\server.pem" -noout -enddate

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harsmarvania57
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Hi,

You can run below command

"C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\splunk.exe" cmd openssl x509 -in "C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\etc\auth\server.pem" -noout -enddate
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kannu
Communicator

@harsmarvania57 And what would be the stanga settings for this in inputs.conf

Are you asking me to run this in powershell

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harsmarvania57
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You can create script and script execute that command and then create scripted input stanza in inputs.conf

I ran above command in "Command Prompt" with Administrative privileges.

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harsmarvania57
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If you want to run in powershell please try same command starting with &

& "C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\splunk.exe" cmd openssl x509 -in "C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\etc\auth\server.pem" -noout -enddate
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