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What are the troubleshooting steps for handling a Bundle Replication error "http response code 401"?

mrtolu6
Path Finder

What are the troubleshooting steps for handling the following message:
Bundle Replication: Problem replicating config (bundle) to search peer 0.0.0.0:8089 ', HTTP response code 401 (HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized). Call not properly authenticated

deepashri_123
Motivator

Hey@mrtolu6,

Can you try restarting splunkd service. That should resolve your problem
AND You can also check if the license server is properly configured.

Let me know if this helps!!

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mrtolu6
Path Finder

Hi Deepashri, looks like this wasn't a splunk issue, this was a vmware issue its fix and working now. Thanks.

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coreyf311
Path Finder

can you expand on the vmware issue? we are also seeing this issue and are in a VMware environment.

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