Installing Splunk Part 3 of 5 – Performing the Initial Splunk Configurations
Now that the Linux operating system is installed
it is time to install the latest instance of Splunk. Since
we have chosen SuSe for our operating system we are going to use the splunk rpm distribution
from the site. Splunk can be obtained for free by signing
up at www.splunk.com. Using
a non-licensed version of Splunk will limit some of the key features, specifically
authentication will not work, which is the biggest part and the amount of data that
can be fed into Splunk will also be limited. For the purpose
of this post we are going to assume that you have a license for Splunk. Some
of the configurations that are going to be setup will be specific to a licensed copy
of Splunk. If you are just using a free copy then just
ignore the aspects of the configuration that will not apply to you.
