So finally got to resolve this with the help of splunk team, now that i am enjoying enterprize support. Thankyou Splunk team for nailing the issue. Resolution: You have to download the IBM JAVA JRE version 6 to get this working. Dwonload and install it, its a bin file which auto extracts to a folder specified by you in linux. Update the file with the new installed JRE : was_jmxperf.sh Update the file with the new installed JRE : was_jmxinventory.sh Restart the splunk forwarders ... View more