Splunk Enterprise

Stream Forwarder never come online

Footoasis0868
Explorer

Hi All,

Deployment: Single Instance Splunk Enterprise

What I want: install the Splunk_TA_stream on my universal forwarder to capture DNS traffic as stream

The doc I followed

The App and add-on are already installed

apps.jpg

The Splunk_TA_stream has been deployed to the UF:

forwarder.png

But I found that the streamfwd.exe is not running. Also I don't see the UF in the dashboard:

splunkapp.jpg

(only the splunk single instance itself is present, and it is even in Error Status)

 

Any insights for me to discover what went wrong?

 

Thank you in advance.

 

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Footoasis0868
Explorer

Anyone who have idea on this??

 

Thanks in advance.

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scelikok
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @Footoasis0868,

Can you confirm if your Splunk instance GUI access is HTTPS enabled? If not your splunk_stream_app_location setting on UF must be http://xxxxx:8000/en-us/custom/splunk_app_stream/

Regarding your Splunk instance itself error state,  please confirm you run set_permissions.sh to be able to start streamfwd.exe

 

If this reply helps you an upvote and "Accept as Solution" is appreciated.
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Footoasis0868
Explorer

Hi @scelikok ,

Thanks. I checked the URL, and it is an error page and I can't locate the requestid from the splunk internal logs.

error.png

Regarding the set_permissions.sh, yes, I have run it using root in my Splunk instance. Just make it clear, I don't need to run similar script on the Windows server where I deployed the Splunk_TA_Stream app, correct?

 

Thanks again.

 

 

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