title: Universal forwarder is not able to communicate with remote Splunk Indexer
body: <p>I am trying to push my Activemq logs to a remote system Splunk Indexer using Universal forwarder however its not working. On my local system I see the logs as below:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>06-13-2012 20:29:38.841 +0530 WARN  DeploymentClient - Unable to send
    handshake message to deployment server. Error status is: not_connected
    06-13-2012 20:29:40.741 +0530 WARN  TcpOutputProc - Raw connection to
    ip=ip.address:9997 timed out</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Local System OS - Windows-7
  Remote system OS - Windows NT 2003</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone help me out to solve this.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>