Install Splunk On Ubuntu Desktop

NB: This post is part of the series on building a home lab

Step 1

Head over to splunk official page and download the Splunk Enterprise

Step 2

Register for an account or login if you already have one.

Step 3

Head over to the terminal and navigate to the downloads folder or where your have your splunk file

-- Navigate to the folder that contains the file
cd Downloads
-- Unzip the file
tar -xvzf splunk-9.0....

Next navigate to bin folder in the unzip file and start the instatllation

cd splunk/bin
./splunk start

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Accept the lincense

Create admin details

Step 4

Enter the webinterface to do the configuration

Step 5

Set up the index and recieving port

Step 6

Set up index for windows server logs

Thats all for now in this section.

Next in the homelab series: Setup Splunk Forwarder on LAN Windows Server 2019