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event shows repeatedly in splunkd.log

Kate_Lawrence-G
Contributor

Hoping someone can help me out here:

I have a system with a heavy forwarder installed (v.4.1.6) that shows the following event repeatedly (at last count 150k+)

10-06-2011 17:56:33.846 WARN  TcpOutputProc - The event is missing source information. Event :

I think it has something to do with a bad input the configurations are standardized an look correct.
I have also reinstalled the splunk package with no luck.
Connectivity between the client and the indexer is OK ; I can port 9997 is open and clear.

Thanks!

Tags (2)

koshyk
Super Champion

is your Cluster master 6.3x or 6.4x by any chance? we had same issue from Search heads when indexer discovery is enabled. if yes, this is a bug which is fixed in 6.4.4 ownwards

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ncsantucci
Path Finder

I have observed same when in no particular order

1) hostname -f fails to return an FQDN 2) in /etc/hosts if the line containing the hostname / hostname w/ FQDN is of the format

IP SHORTNAME FQDN

when in point of fact it must be of the form

IP FQDN SHORTNAME

That's why hostname -f didn't work. Wrong ordering

suppose we have an /etc/hosts as follows

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
a.b.c.d   hostname hostname.domain

we can resolve as follows:

grep localhost /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.correct
grep `hostname` /etc/hosts | awk '{print $1 " " $3 " " $2}' >> /etc/hosts.correct
\cp -p /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.broken
\cp -p /etc/hosts.correct /etc/hosts

Output of /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
a.b.c.d   hostname.domain hostname
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DaveSavage
Builder

Kate - am not sure this may solve it - but have you checked that host's IP address and / or name are set up correctly? Probably a daft question if its a major server out there 😉

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