topic Re: Linux Splunk upgrade script in All Apps and Add-ons

Linux Splunk upgrade script

Smokex365 — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 04:17:32 GMT

The goal: A single script that can be run to:

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download splunk using the wget links (or from a directory if that would be an issue)
run the upgrade (the .deb file in my case)
answer the terms
and start splunk agian.

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I'm still very new to bash scripting so I have no clue even where to start. It would be nice to be able to just run this script and have everything done automatically. I could also see it being set as a scheduled task as long as some kind of check could be added to ensure it didn't spam the splunk servers and and download anything unless it's updated.

Re: Linux Splunk upgrade script

yannK — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:00:57 GMT

not tested

#!/bin/bash
splunk_download="http://blah.vlah.blah.com/splunk_installer.deb"
splunk_installer="splunk_installer.deb"

wget $splunk_download
/opt/splunk/bin/splunk stop
dpkg -i $splunk_installer
/opt/splunk/bin/splunk start --accept-license
rm -rf $splunk_installer

Re: Linux Splunk upgrade script

Smokex365 — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:15:19 GMT

Any way to make this work with the wget through releases without having to update the script for each release?

Re: Linux Splunk upgrade script

yannK — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:37:26 GMT

not that I am aware of, you still can create a local repository for your install bits

Re: Linux Splunk upgrade script

Lsv — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:03:51 GMT

Don't forget you'll have to restart splunk after an update due to the license agreement. So that script could probably make use of

sudo service splunk restart

...and follow the instructions to move forward, unless there's something you can append to the dkpg line and do more?