Security

Indexer unable to contact licence master

Jamesfirth
New Member

Hi All,

have 1 license master/search head and 3 indexers, as of about 2 weeks ago all 3 indexers lost contact to the master, what can i do to fix this? also, is there a way to trigger an email alert if this happens again.

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Jamesfirth
New Member

Found the issue, the index cluster has been broken :neutral_face: does/can does this randomly happen, or would someone have to have de-clustered this?

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi
you could create an alert like the following

index=_internal "Indexer unable to contact licence master"

to run e.g. every hour that send an eMail wher error occurs.
bye.
Giuseppe

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Jamesfirth
New Member

Edit: Update: i believe its a simple DNS issue on the servers that the indexes software is running on that is causing them not to be able to contact the license master via fqdn.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

You can stand up a Monitoring Console and then find a search that you like that shows license usage. Copy that search and any time that it shows 0 license usage, you know that either your Indexers are not Indexing or they are not talking to the License Manager.

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