Description | This article describes how to troubleshoot a collector that stops sending events randomly. |
Scope | FortiSIEM Collector. |
Solution |
It has often been observed that the collector stops sending events to the event worker with all the proper configuration in place and still does not upload events.
In the backend Phoenix logs of the collector, the following errors have been observed:
tail -f /opt/phoenix/phoenix.log | grep -i err 2025-07-24T10:02:06.571965+05:30 forticollector phEventPackager[3852]: [PH_EVT_PACKAGER_FILE_UPLOAD_FAILURE]:[eventSeverity]=PHL_WARNING,[procName]=phEventPackager,[fileName]=phEventPKGProcess.cpp,[lineNumber]=1013,[filePath]=/opt/phoenix/cache/parser/events/evt_1753326427_5257_1178112.dat,[errorNoInt]=401,[destName]=10.10.10.5,[phLogDetail]=Failed to upload event file to worker
{"currentTime":1752146455,"nodeType":"Worker","role":null,"summary":"Normal","reason":"[{\"attribute\":\"CPU
cp /etc/httpd/accounts/passwds /etc/httpd/accounts/passwds.backup
mv /etc/opsd/.fortisiem4x0 /tmp
# /opt/phoenix/bin/phProvisionCollector --add <user> '<password>' <Super IP or Host> <Organization> <CollectorName> |
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