Security

Unable to connect to the splunk web interface

cebo_myeza
Path Finder

I have been using the splunk web interface with this address 127.0.0.1:8000 for almost two months now, but all of the sudden it just stopped connecting and it's giving me a message saying that "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:8000".

please help i don't know what went wrong.

martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

It's really bad practice to run splunk as root.

cebo_myeza
Path Finder

hi martin_mueller

i always here this but i dont know why is not a good practice.

can you please explain to me why is not a good practice in simple terms

thank in advance

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Any piece of software - Splunk or not - should not be run as root unless there is a very good reason to do so.

n00badmin
Communicator

cd /opt/splunk/bin
./splunk stop

do you get a reponse??

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cebo_myeza
Path Finder

hi n00badmin

From the look of things my system is healthy thou:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_wisdom-lv_root
50G 3.8G 45G 8% /
tmpfs 1.9G 376K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 477M 98M 354M 22% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_wisdom-lv_home
176G 18G 149G 11% /home

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n00badmin
Communicator

so strange...

is this a licenced deployment or are you running the free licence?

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cebo_myeza
Path Finder

i am running a free licence for now...

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n00badmin
Communicator

at this point it is worth gathering your data and re-installing????

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ngatchasandra
Builder

Hi cebo_myeza,

  • Try to check if the attribute startwebserver of web.conf file is set to 1.

    web.conf is located to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/

  • Or try to run individualy the command that follow:

    sudo /opt/splunk/bin/splunkd start and sudo /opt/splunk/bin/splunkweb start

cebo_myeza
Path Finder

if i check the attributes of startwebserver everything seems okay here is the copy below:

[settings]

enable/disable the appserver

startwebserver = 1

httpport = 8000

enableSplunkWebSSL = false

mgmtHostPort = 127.0.0.1:8089

appServerPorts = 8065

And if i run the command 'sudo /opt/splunk/bin/splunkd start' i get the following error

[root@localhost wisdom.network_trainee]# sudo /opt/splunk/bin/splunkweb start
sudo: /opt/splunk/bin/splunkweb: command not found

[root@localhost wisdom.network_trainee]# sudo /opt/splunk/bin/splunkd start
/opt/splunk/bin/splunkd: error while loading shared libraries: libjemalloc.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

thanks for your time ngatchasandra

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n00badmin
Communicator

dude,

you need to locate your install...

does /opt/splunk/bin exist?

if it does do:

cd /opt/splunk/bin
./splunk stop

what do you get???

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cebo_myeza
Path Finder

i still don't get any response like this:

[root@localhost wisdom.network_trainee]# cd /opt/splunk/bin
[root@localhost bin]# ./splunk stop
[root@localhost bin]# ./splunk start
[root@localhost bin]#

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n00badmin
Communicator

please do ps -ef | grep splunk

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cebo_myeza
Path Finder

[root@localhost wisdom.network_trainee]# ps -ef | grep splunk
root 6417 6407 0 08:59 pts/1 00:00:00 grep splunk

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n00badmin
Communicator

splunk is not running....

were you the one who installed splunk??

can you confirm that splunk is installed at /opt??

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cebo_myeza
Path Finder

Yeah i am the one who installed splunk and i have been using the splunkweb for the past 3 months, everything was running smoothly, i really don't know what went wrong.

how can i confirm?

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cebo_myeza
Path Finder

[root@localhost wisdom.network_trainee]# find / -name splunk

/etc/rc.d/init.d/splunk
/opt/splunk
/opt/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk
/opt/splunk/share/splunk
/opt/splunk/share/splunk/search_mrsparkle/exposed/js/splunk
/opt/splunk/share/splunk/search_mrsparkle/exposed/img/splunk
/opt/splunk/bin/splunk
/opt/splunk/var/log/splunk
/opt/splunk/var/run/splunk
/opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk
/opt/splunk/var/spool/splunk
/var/lock/subsys/splunk
/var/spool/mail/splunk

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MuS
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

To me this looks like your /opt/splunk is almost empty!

There should be a hole lot more files in /opt/splunk like:

find /opt/splunk/ | wc -l
12581

or

du -sk /opt/splunk/
1385792 /opt/splunk/

cebo_myeza
Path Finder

hi Mus

i find this :

[root@localhost wisdom.network_trainee]# find /opt/splunk/ | wc -l
12750

[root@localhost wisdom.network_trainee]# du -sk /opt/splunk/
1575340 /opt/splunk/

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cebo_myeza
Path Finder

i get this

[root@localhost wisdom.network_trainee]# strace /opt/splunk/bin/splunk start

execve("/opt/splunk/bin/splunk", ["/opt/splunk/bin/splunk", "start"], [/* 39 vars */]) = -1 ENOEXEC (Exec format error)
dup(2) = 3
fcntl(3, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f9bc4c17000
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
write(3, "strace: exec: Exec format error\n", 32strace: exec: Exec format error
) = 32
close(3) = 0
munmap(0x7f9bc4c17000, 4096) = 0
exit_group(1) = ?

Thanks

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