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Universal forwarder for Linux is not forwarding some types of sourcetypes

Splunk_Ryan
Explorer

On my Linux server the universal forwarder and Splunk_TA_nix are installed, at least df and cpu are enabled in inputs.conf.

vi /opt/splunkforwarder/etc/apps/Splunk_TA_nix/local/inputs.conf

[script://./bin/df.sh]
interval = 300
sourcetype = df
source = df
index = os
disabled = 0

[script://./bin/cpu.sh]
sourcetype = cpu
source = cpu
#interval = 30
interval = 300
index = os
disabled = 0

When I search for this Linux server on Splunk, I get df logs. But cpu logs are missing

Top 10 Values Count %
df 44 1.224%

Could anyone advise? much appreciated. 

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
Have you try to run this cpu.sh as user splunk on this server? There could be an issue with permission or other stuff.

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
Have you try to run this cpu.sh as user splunk on this server? There could be an issue with permission or other stuff.
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Splunk_Ryan
Explorer

Thanks 

  The cpu.sh was not running on the Linux server either as splunk or as root. It turned out that the cpu.sh has a dependency on sysstat package which I had not installed.

  It is running now after sysstat was installed.

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gordo32
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I ran into this problem and while the dependency for cpu.sh is to have sysstat installed, I also found that df.sh wouldn't parse correctly on Ubuntu until the gawk package was installed (mawk package was already present).

Gord T.

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