Splunk Linux Setup | Splunk Configuration In Linux/CentOS

#splunk, #splunkbasics, #splunkinstallation Hello Friends,

This video is your guide to setup splunk in Oracle VM box. You may face lot of challenges in setting up splunk, so thats why I have made this video and you will be able to follow the step by step commands and you can have splunk ready. I have also given all the commands below.

This splunk tutorial will help you understand the commands and fix the splunk issues faced at the installation. At the end you have the splunk dashboard ready and as as splunk beginner you can start doing your learning and testing splunk jobs on this splunk linux instance.

See the below for the commands:

Create splunk user:

groupadd splunk
useradd -d /opt/splunk -m -g splunk splunk
su - splunk

Extract the splunk package and take the ownership:

chown -R splunk: /opt/splunk/

Start the splunk instance and enable boot start:

cd opt/splunk/bin
./splunk start --accept-license
./splunk enable boot-start

Add firewall exception:

# firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=8000/tcp
# firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=5514/udp

# firewall-cmd --reload
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[LoveBike-fe]

helped me alot thanks for the videos and the tips

[grainfrizz]

You need to specify -user splunk on boot-start. Otherwise it'll be ran by root.

./splunk enable boot-start -user splunk

[busuyijohnson]

Great video and help. All worked for me

[Avexirify]

May I know why you chose to do the setup through PUTTY instead of directly through the VM in Virtualbox?

[shriyaqqtguptatherethuche]

what is the password for splunk. When I tried su - splunk it was prompting me for password, but I don't know .

[nayanandu]

my opt directory doesn't have enough space.. what other directory can i use to extract splunk in?

[rajam]

Hello, I can able to install slunk successfully, but unable to access web console on port 8000. I tried all several ways to open the port, but cant. Any suggestions?

[buivanlam]

i dont know password for splunk when i type su, can u help me ?

[buivanlam]

i can''t setup putty, i have get mistake with connection refused, please help me <3

[Rajesh-cczo]

Next time while you are making video on putty please make sure that white color background if possible...