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Logs for Observability. View all products. Cloud Transformation Transform your business in the cloud with Splunk. The universal forwarder installs the Forwarder license by default. Heavy forwarders and light forwarders must be manually configured to use the Forwarder license. For an example on how enable the Forwarder license using the CLI, see Select a different license group. A heavy forwarder is often used to perform more complex functions than the Forwarder license allows.
Access to features such as advanced authentication, alerting, distributed search, KVStore, and indexing require an Enterprise license. You can configure the heavy forwarder as a peer to a license master to gain access to those features. To learn how to configure a connection for license management, see Manage license slaves. Splunk beta software releases require their own Beta licenses, which are not compatible with other Splunk software releases.
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Security Empower the business to innovate while limiting risks. IT Go from running the business to transforming it. DevOps Accelerate the delivery of exceptional user experiences. The server may not be configured to respond to ping requests, but you should at least see the hostname resolve to an IP address. If you get output indicating that a certificate is returned, it means that this connection is working properly.
Running these installation methods and configuring a deployment server will result in a configuration file called deploymentclient. Check to make sure that this file exists and that the contents are what you expect. The following Splunk btool command can help point you to the location of this configuration. If you get no output, it means that the configuration is missing. Sometimes the Universal Forwarder will get hung up and need to be manually restarted. Restarting the UF is often enough to resolve common issues with the forwarder, especially if it was working previously before it stopped sending data.
The Universal Forwarder can be restarted via a few different methods:. If all else fails, additional information may need to be collected from the system to assist with troubleshooting.
This is called a Splunk Diag. See this tutorial for more information on how to collect this and send it to us for analysis the process is the same on both Windows and Linux. At some point, it will become necessary to upgrade the version of the Splunk Universal Forwarder on your systems. The Universal Forwarders are generally quite compatible with various versions of Splunk, but there will eventually be a time where new features are introduced or there are some breaking changes such as improved SSL ciphers that necessitate an upgrade.
As a general rule of thumb, the major version of the Universal Forwarder e. Splunk 8. To upgrade a Splunk Universal Forwarder assuming the tgz installation method :. Below is a video showing the upgrade of a Universal Forwarder from Splunk 8. Alternatively, you may also want to use a script to deploy the Universal Forwarder to make the process quicker.
Once this script is run, it will install the Universal Forwarder, set a admin password, configure the deployment server, start the UF service, and configure the UF to run on boot. Below is a video demonstration of how to use this script to deploy the UF in a test environment. If you need to uninstall the Splunk Universal Forwarder, follow these steps:.
Below is a video demonstration of the uninstall process on my test machine. Hopefully, this guide helps you as you deploy your Splunk environment and collect data from your Linux hosts systems. Also, be sure to check out the first part of this tutorial if you have Windows hosts that also need the Universal Forwarder installed.
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