Unable to execute commands on CLI splunk

[mmohiuddin1512]

Hi All:

I am unable to execute any commands on CLI Splunk Instance. Whenever I try to execute any commands the screen freezes. I can navigate to folders without any latency issues, the issue is with executing splunk commands. For instance, I am executing command on the CLI to change the default splunk admin password and the screen freezes.

./splunk edit user admin -password 'foo' -auth admin:changeme

Any assistance will be appreciated.

[woodcock]

It is prompting you for user password so add this to the end of your commands that do this:

... -auth splunk:changeme

[mmohiuddin1512]

Could you please post the complete command.

Does it need to be:

./splunk edit user admin -password 'foo' -auth admin:changeme

./splunk edit user admin -password 'foo' -role admin -auth admin:changeme

[woodcock]

Like this:

./splunk edit user admin -password newPassowrd  -auth admin:changeme 

[woodcock]

This assumes that you have not (yet) changed the default password.

[woodcock]

This is windows, right? You need to open your app ( cmd or whatever; I use mobaXterm) as Admin (right click and select Run as administrator ).

[mmohiuddin1512]

This is not windows. This is on Linux.

[pradeepkumarg]

Does it ever come back and respond? What are you doing to get back and run another command?
Other non splunk commands run fine on the machine? Check the health of the machine? Disk, memory etc..,

[mmohiuddin1512]

Apparently, there is no resource constraint on the servers. They were rebooted. Also I am able to execute the following commands without any difficulty ./splunk status, ./splunk restart ./splunk version etc. I am having problem issuing command to modify the default splunk admin credentials or list the monitoring inputs , i.e ./splunk list monitor. These commands just hang and do not provide any response. I have stopped the splunk universal forwarder service on these servers and started them back up and then issued the commands ( for modifying password , listing file monitors) but the commands hang up and do not respond

[mmohiuddin1512]

We are using splunk universal forwarder version 6.6.1