Deployment Architecture

No logs from 2 SHC search heads

davebo1896
Communicator

Two of our three search heads have stopped forwarding logs.
It doesn't matter if they are captain or not.

I have verified server.conf and outputs.conf look good using splunk btool server all and splunk btool outputs all

I have tried cleaning all search heads (remove from cluster, remove non-standard apps and user, run splunk clean all, and put back in the cluster)

The logs are being written, but are not being forwarded to the indexers.

Any ideas what to check next?

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davebo1896
Communicator

I got it figured out.

in /opt/splunk/etc/system/local/inputs.conf

  [default]
  host =<server>

host was set to the same hostname on all three search heads.
No idea how that happened, but setting host to the respective hostname and cluster restart fixed the problem

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davebo1896
Communicator

I got it figured out.

in /opt/splunk/etc/system/local/inputs.conf

  [default]
  host =<server>

host was set to the same hostname on all three search heads.
No idea how that happened, but setting host to the respective hostname and cluster restart fixed the problem

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sk314
Builder

Does the outputs.conf have this line

[indexAndForward]
index = false

Ref: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/DistSearch/Forwardsearchheaddata

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davebo1896
Communicator

Yes. They are using index=false

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