Monitoring Splunk

restart splunkd remotely

a212830
Champion

Hi,

Is there a way (via Splunk cli?) to restart the splunkd process on remote servers?

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Leo
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Using Splunk CLI:

splunk _internal call /services/server/control/restart -method POST -uri https://remoteserver:8089 -auth admin:goodpassword

Consider Web Terminal for Splunk app for situations when Splunk CLI or curl are not available.

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Leo
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Using Splunk CLI:

splunk _internal call /services/server/control/restart -method POST -uri https://remoteserver:8089 -auth admin:goodpassword

Consider Web Terminal for Splunk app for situations when Splunk CLI or curl are not available.

MartinMcNutt
Communicator

Powershell Winrm is turning out to be very nice add in my environment (Windows) for managing my servers. I am in the process of setting up 40+ and I used powershell with winrm to manage almost all settings.

When WINRM is up and configured you can use:

(Examples)

Powershell.exe

Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computername { <Command> }

or

Enter-pssession -computername
Cd Splunk\bin
.\splunk.exe restart
exit-pssession

WINRM with powershell is like telnet for unix. Microsoft finally understands the power of scripting and remote management via the command line.

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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

curl -k -u admin:PASSWORD https://HOSTNAMEREMOTE:8089/services/server/control/restart -X POST

This should work as long as the PASSWORD is NOT the default (mainly for forwarders)

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