First check your operating system configuration. Based on
that download splunk .In my caase I downloaded 64bit.
If you want to check your operating system configuration use
uname –a command
Download .deb file .If you are new user it will ask registration
once completed registration. Now you can download the file.
After download is completed you can install it using dpkg command like below.
dpkg -i /home/madhu/Downloads/splunk-6.4.0-f2c836328108-linux-2.6-amd64.deb
then you will get like below.
Selecting
previously unselected package splunk.
(Reading
database ... 20803 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking
splunk (from splunk-6.4.0-204106-linux-2.6-amd64.deb) .
Setting
up splunk (6.0.3-204106) .
Complete
Next we need to create the init.d script so that we can easily start
and stop Splunk.Change the
Splunk directory and run the splunk executable with the below arguments.
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cd /opt/splunk/bin/
./splunk enable boot-start
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Now it will ask licence and agreement then enter Y for accepting licence.
Now start the splunk service
Sudo /opt/splunk/bin/splunk start
Now you can access splunk web ui http://ipaddress:8000 or its created ui base on your account like
http://madhu-vb:8000
By default login credentials is
User name: admin
Password : changeme
