Validate your configuration

Before you deploy your configuration, you can use splunkd.log to validate and troubleshoot your configuration. Splunkd.log is located on your indexer and forwarder at $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log.

On the indexer, look for the following or similar messages at the start-up sequence to verify a successful connection:

02-06-2011 19:19:01.552 INFO TcpInputProc - using queueSize 1000
02-06-2011 19:19:01.552 INFO TcpInputProc - SSL cipherSuite=ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM
02-06-2011 19:19:01.552 INFO TcpInputProc - supporting SSL v2/v3
02-06-2011 19:19:01.555 INFO TcpInputProc - port 9997 is reserved for splunk 2 splunk (SSL)
02-06-2011 19:19:01.555 INFO TcpInputProc - Port 9997 is compressed
02-06-2011 19:19:01.556 INFO TcpInputProc - Registering metrics callback for: tcpin_connections

On the forwarder, look for the following or similar messages at the start-up sequence to verify a successful connection:

02-06-2011 19:06:10.844 INFO TcpOutputProc - Retrieving configuration from properties
02-06-2011 19:06:10.848 INFO TcpOutputProc - found Whitelist forwardedindex.0.whitelist , RE : forwardedindex.0.whitelist
02-06-2011 19:06:10.848 INFO TcpOutputProc - found Whitelist forwardedindex.1.blacklist , RE : forwardedindex.1.blacklist
02-06-2011 19:06:10.848 INFO TcpOutputProc - found Whitelist forwardedindex.2.whitelist , RE : forwardedindex.2.whitelist
02-06-2011 19:06:10.850 INFO TcpOutputProc - Will retry at max backoff sleep forever
02-06-2011 19:06:10.850 INFO TcpOutputProc - Using SSL for server 10.1.12.112:9997, sslCertPath=/opt/splunk/etc/aut/server.pem
02-06-2011 19:06:10.854 INFO TcpOutputProc - ALL Connections will use SSL with sslCipher=
02-06-2011 19:06:10.859 INFO TcpOutputProc - initializing single connection with retry strategy for 10.1.12.112:9997

For help troubleshooting your configuration issues, see "Troubleshoot your forwarder to indexer configuration" in this manual.