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heavy forwarder does not forward data from db connect

gesa_behrens
Path Finder

Hello,

I have set up a heavy forwarder with DBX. The connection to my sample database (mySQL) works, but the data is not forwarded to my indexer.
I tested the connection by forwarding the syslog from the machine to my indexer, this worked fine.
I read SPLUNK answers up and down but cannot find the solution to my problem.
According to other answers, it should be enough to have setup outputs.conf correctly, which I think I proved by forwarding syslog.
I searched metrics.log to find any hint of forwarding my data, but did not find any (searched for "test" which is the index the data should be stored in)
db_inputs.conf:
[all_testtable]
batch_upload_size = 1000
connection = testconnect
disabled = 0
fetch_size = 300
index = test
index_time_mode = current
interval = 1200
max_rows = 0
max_single_checkpoint_file_size = 10485760
mode = rising
query = SELECT * FROM testbase.testtable where ID > ? order by ID
query_timeout = 30
sourcetype = Standard
tail_rising_column_number = 1

Splunk version (both forwarder and indexer) is 7.1.2
DB Connect Version is 3.1.3

Any help appreciated

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gesa_behrens
Path Finder

I called support and got an older version (2.4.1) this works perfectly so far.
I hope DBX will notice that there seems to be a problem forwarding via HEC and fix it soon.

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gesa_behrens
Path Finder

I called support and got an older version (2.4.1) this works perfectly so far.
I hope DBX will notice that there seems to be a problem forwarding via HEC and fix it soon.

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gesa_behrens
Path Finder

Thanks,
it did not lead me to a solution but it eventually brought me to this piece of documentation : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/3.1.3/DeployDBX/Troubleshooting#Debug_HTTP_Event_Collector_....
It seems here is the problem because I also found :
java.io.IOException: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request in /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/splunk_app_db_connect_server.log

But here I ran into the next dead end: I read about setting up HEC tokens, but I could not find how to tell the forwarder to use this token (or the other way around, I set up tokens on both sides, but of course they are different)

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CarsonZa
Contributor

check your cron schedule maybe?

also I would be looking in the db connect logs not the metric logs. Start here $SPLUNK_HOME\var\log\splunk_app_db_connect_audit_command.date.log

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