Why is Splunk UF version 9.0.1 stuck while accepting license?

[nbommu]

We have existing UF 8.2.2 in all instance and managed by ansible, when we are trying upgrade to 9.0.1 ansible stuck which accepting license, if I run that command manually on the target host, it is working fine, I think ansible is waiting for response after ran the command on the target hots which has changed with version 9.0.1.

task to accept license:

- name: Accept Splunk license and set up init script
  command:
    cmd: /opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk status --accept-license --answer-yes --no-prompt

[nbommu]

Hi Andreas,

how you overcome that issue with accepting license via ansible task or do you have a workaround?

thanks

Niranjan

[schose]

Hi Niranjan,

yes, i simply run

- name: accept license
  tags:
   - install
  shell: /opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk status --accept-license --answer-yes
  become: yes
  when: 
    - splunk_path.stat.exists == false or current_version.rc != 0
  ignore_errors: true

before..

cheers,

Andreas

[nbommu]

I have been trying with version 9.0.0, 9.0.1 and 9.0.2, all are stuck while accepting license via ansible task but when I run that command manually on that target host it is working fine, I think with version 9 there are some changes in the splunk command causing this. 

rpm I have been using:

splunkforwarder-9.0.2-17e00c557dc1-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm

thanks

NIranjan

[schose]

Hi NIranjan,

can you send an ansible-playbook debug while the task is hanging? I'm using .tgz files as, .rpm always seems a blackbox for me - i cannot see from outside what post scripts are running in. there.

best regards,

Andreas

[nbommu]

definitely something has changed with version 9 splunk binary, when we run license task from ansible its hung forever and I don't see an obvious stdout to check what is going on there, interestingly it works fine with version 8+

[likedasplunk]

I'm also having the same issue with 9.0.3. I also replied to this thread:

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise/Splunk-9-Universal-Forwarder-getting-quot-App-Key-...