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Splunk App for Unix not showing hosts from peered indexers...

samlll42
Explorer

Hi Everyone

Problem: On Splunk App for Unix (latest versions of all the components) on a search head I cannot see hosts from indexers peered to the search head. The data is there if I do a search on index=os ( I can see perf data for all the hosts: CPU, PS etc...), but in the dashboard I can only see the hosts indexed locally (local host and a forwarder). What am I doing wrong?

Example:

= splunk-search (local indexer and search-head) peered with splunk-indexer

=== splunk-forwarder X (forwarding to splunk-search)

=== splunk-forwarder Y (forwarding to splunk-search)

=splunk-indexer (local indexer)

=== splunk-forwarder A (forwarding to splunk-indexer)

=== splunk-forwarder B (forwarding to splunk-indexer)

=== splunk-forwarder C (forwarding to splunk-indexer)

If I go to Splunk App for Unix dashboard on splunk-indexer I can see hosts for:

  • splunk-indexer (local) + splunk-forwarder A, B, C (which is expected)

If I go to Splunk App for Unix dashboard on splunk-search I can only see hosts for:

  • splunk-search (local) + splunk-forwarder X,Y - NOT splunk-indexer, nor splunk-forwarder A, B and C

But when I do a search on splunk-search index=os I can see data being found for all hosts.

Do I need to setup Splunk App for Unix in a specific way to display data for remote/peered indexes?

Strunk
Explorer

See this question:

http://answers.splunk.com/answers/132477/adding-hosts-to-splunk-app-for-unix

What worked for me was following those instructions to ensure each host was added to a group, which was then added to a category. I'm guessing that because I deployed the app to the universal forwarders/deployment clients after installing the app on the deployment server/index, the categories and groups weren't populated automatically.

Strunk
Explorer

I'm having the same problem, with getting data back from universal forwarders. The data is making it to the indexer/deployment server, but it's not showing up in the dashboard.

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