https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Universal-Forwarder-for-AIX-RPM/m-p/197341#M39205 <P>Has anyone built their own Universal Forwarder for AIX rpm? </P> <P>Managing tar balls is a but problematic with a large number of systems. Leveraging rpms with configuration management tools such as chef, puppet, or cfengine tends to make it a bit easier for distribution, patching, upgrading, and reporting. </P> <P>if anyone has built their own aix rpm, would you mind sharing suggestions, how you went about building it (generating a spec file), any gotchas, etc?</P> <P>Thanks!</P> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:04:20 GMT dompjm 2015-01-22T13:04:20Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Universal-Forwarder-for-AIX-RPM/m-p/197341#M39205 <P>Has anyone built their own Universal Forwarder for AIX rpm? </P> <P>Managing tar balls is a but problematic with a large number of systems. Leveraging rpms with configuration management tools such as chef, puppet, or cfengine tends to make it a bit easier for distribution, patching, upgrading, and reporting. </P> <P>if anyone has built their own aix rpm, would you mind sharing suggestions, how you went about building it (generating a spec file), any gotchas, etc?</P> <P>Thanks!</P> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:04:20 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Universal-Forwarder-for-AIX-RPM/m-p/197341#M39205 dompjm 2015-01-22T13:04:20Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Universal-Forwarder-for-AIX-RPM/m-p/197342#M39206 <P>RPMs, no. But I did previously have a script that could take a splunk tarball and make an AIX LPP (installp package) out of it. I will see if I can find it in the next couple of days and post a link.</P> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:51:57 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Universal-Forwarder-for-AIX-RPM/m-p/197342#M39206 dwaddle 2015-01-22T13:51:57Z