topic Re: Is Splunk supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 running Linux kernel 3.10? in Deployment Architecture

Is Splunk supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 running Linux kernel 3.10?

keithyap — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 04:28:31 GMT

Would Splunk work with RHEL 7?

From what I have read, RHEL 7 runs Linux kernel 3.10 and the documentation in Splunk just states 2.6+.

Re: Is Splunk supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 running Linux kernel 3.10?

hortonew — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 04:38:59 GMT

The following document shows Linux, 3.0+ is supported.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.3/Installation/Systemrequirements#Supported_OSes

Re: Is Splunk supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 running Linux kernel 3.10?

mcronkrite — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:33:20 GMT

IF YOU HAVE RHEL7
ADD THE FOLLOWING "SLEEP 60" to your /etc/init.d/

#
Sleep 60
RETVAL=0

. /etc/init.d/functions

splunk_start() {

Re: Is Splunk supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 running Linux kernel 3.10?

triest — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 02:54:43 GMT

Could you please expand on why this is/was necessary? I realize this answer is quite old by now, but its always helpful to understand WHY something is recommended.

Re: Is Splunk supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 running Linux kernel 3.10?

CurryPan — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:24:25 GMT

Linux kernel 3.x and later (32-bit) was deprecated in 6.3 so you cannot upgrade to Splunk ver.6.3.x.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.0/Installation/Systemrequirements#Unix_operating_systems

Note: Linux kernel 3.x and later (64-bit) should be supported in Splunk ver.6.3.x.

Re: Is Splunk supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 running Linux kernel 3.10?

jrodriguezinter — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:20:02 GMT

So, the doc refers to "3.0+". Does that mean 3.10 would be covered?

Also, anyone know why the /etc/init.d change above is recommended?

Re: Is Splunk supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 running Linux kernel 3.10?

hortonew — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 20:50:52 GMT

Latest doc lists 3.x covering 3.10

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.2/Installation/Systemrequirements#Supported_OSes

Re: Is Splunk supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 running Linux kernel 3.10?

jrodriguezinter — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 20:53:20 GMT

Great. Thank you.

-Joseph

Re: Is Splunk supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 running Linux kernel 3.10?

jmantor — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 20:06:48 GMT

Macy, could you elaborate on this, please?

Re: Is Splunk supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 running Linux kernel 3.10?

nnmiller — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:51:19 GMT

Presumably the sleep delay allows PAM to be fully spun up so that ulimit settings are applied properly when Splunk starts. Another alternative and more details are discussed in George Starcher's blog post Splunk Ulimits and You.