Splunk Universal Forwarder No users exist. Please set up a user.
Greetings,
I was trying to add the universal forwarder the deployment server IP and got the error below.
C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin>splunk.exe set deploy-poll 10.0.0.4:8089
Splunk username: admin
Password: changeme
No users exist. Please set up a user.
To overcome it I followed the steps below.
Navigate to C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\etc\system\local
Edit(or create if not exist) user-seed.conf
[user_info]
USERNAME = admin_user_name
PASSWORD = <your password>
Restart splunk forwarder windows service. the file you just create would vanish, no worries. You can test your newly defined user/pass.
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.2/Security/Secureyouradminaccount