Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Universal Forwarder suddenly stop receiving WinHostMon event

tlam_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Running Window Splunk v652

We find that from time to time, the UF suddenly stop sending the WinHostMon events to Splunk Indexers.
Checking the log, we find the following error
ERROR ExecProcessor - Couldn't start command ""c:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\splunk-winhostinfo.exe"": Access is denied.

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tlam_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

1) Check there is any anti-virus running in the Windows

2) Check there is any firewall blocking the process

3) Upgrade to the v659 or v667. It has a fix to startup the process again.

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