Splunk Tutorial: Install & Configure Heavy Forwarders

Download File URL - https://download.splunk.com/products/splunk/releases/9.0.1/linux/splunk-9.0.1-82c987350fde-Linux-x86_64.tgz

Splunk Linux Tar file - wget -O splunk-9.0.1-82c987350fde-Linux-x86_64.tgz "https://download.splunk.com/products/splunk/releases/9.0.1/linux/splunk-9.0.1-82c987350fde-Linux-x86_64.tgz"

Splunk Linux rpm file - wget -O splunk-9.0.1-82c987350fde-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm "https://download.splunk.com/products/splunk/releases/9.0.1/linux/splunk-9.0.1-82c987350fde-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm"

Splunk Linux Debian file - wget -O splunk-9.0.1-82c987350fde-linux-2.6-amd64.deb "https://download.splunk.com/products/splunk/releases/9.0.1/linux/splunk-9.0.1-82c987350fde-linux-2.6-amd64.deb"

Splunk Linux Windows file - wget -O splunk-9.0.1-82c987350fde-x64-release.msi "https://download.splunk.com/products/splunk/releases/9.0.1/windows/splunk-9.0.1-82c987350fde-x64-release.msi"


Splunk Universal Forwarder

MSI file
$ wget -O splunkforwarder-9.0.1-82c987350fde-x64-release.msi "https://download.splunk.com/products/universalforwarder/releases/9.0.1/windows/splunkforwarder-9.0.1-82c987350fde-x64-release.msi"

Linux tar file
$ wget -O splunkforwarder-9.0.1-82c987350fde-Linux-x86_64.tgz "https://download.splunk.com/products/universalforwarder/releases/9.0.1/linux/splunkforwarder-9.0.1-82c987350fde-Linux-x86_64.tgz"
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Setting => Licencig ==> Change Licence Group => Forwarder License => Restart now
Setting => Forwarding and Receiving => Configure Forwarding => Add New
	Host Machine = X.X.X.X:9997

Now
	Push some files monitooring on Heavy forwarder and watch in Splunk WebCode language: PHP (php)

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