What is the next step to enable the communication between the forwarder and the deployment server?

A new forwarder has been installed with a manually created deploymentclient.conf.

What is the next step to enable the communication between the forwarder and the deployment server?
A . Restart Splunk on the deployment server.
B . Enable the deployment client in Splunk Web under Forwarder Management.
C . Restart Splunk on the deployment client.
D . Wait for up to the time set in the phoneHomeIntervalInSecs setting.

Answer: A

Explanation:

Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Forwarder/8.2.3/Forwarder/Configuretheuniversalforwarder

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Juliana Nobile
Juliana Nobile
1 year ago

Answer: C

You must restart the forwarder Splunk instance to enable configuration changes.

Explanation:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.2/Admin/Deploymentclientconf