Splunk Enterprise

How to check Universal Forwader version in Splunk Enterprise?

MK2
Engager

I assume the answer is to check Forwader management on setting or to check Forwader Deployment: in monitoring console.

Is there any other way?

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MK2
Engager

Thank you for your commentary.
I appriciate it.

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KendallW
Contributor

Hi @MK2 the monitoring console is ostensibly the best place to check your forwarder versions, although keep in mind all the data there is populated by internal Splunk searches, so you can actually search the data yourself if you need a different visualization, for example.

E.g.

index="_internal" source="*metrics.lo*" group=tcpin_connections | dedup guid| eval sourceHost=if(isnull(hostname), sourceHost,hostname) | eval connectionType=case(fwdType=="uf","universal forwarder", fwdType=="lwf", "lightweight forwarder",fwdType=="full", "heavy forwarder", connectionType=="cooked" or connectionType=="cookedSSL","Splunk forwarder", connectionType=="raw" or connectionType=="rawSSL","legacy forwarder")| eval build=if(isnull(build),"n/a",build) | eval version=if(isnull(version),"pre 4.2",version) | eval guid=if(isnull(guid),sourceHost,guid) | eval os=if(isnull(os),"n/a",os)| eval arch=if(isnull(arch),"n/a",arch) | table sourceHost connectionType sourceIp sourceHost ssl ack build version os arch guid
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