https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-install-Splunk-forwarders-on-AWS-EC2-instances/m-p/222563#M43635 <P>I have Splunk Enterprise on an AWS EC2 Server, and need to install forwarders on two other EC2 Instances. Can someone direct me to documentation on how to do this? Not finding this case in the documentation. Thanks!</P> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:12:20 GMT hcipartners 2016-02-25T20:12:20Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-install-Splunk-forwarders-on-AWS-EC2-instances/m-p/222563#M43635 <P>I have Splunk Enterprise on an AWS EC2 Server, and need to install forwarders on two other EC2 Instances. Can someone direct me to documentation on how to do this? Not finding this case in the documentation. Thanks!</P> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:12:20 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-install-Splunk-forwarders-on-AWS-EC2-instances/m-p/222563#M43635 hcipartners 2016-02-25T20:12:20Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-install-Splunk-forwarders-on-AWS-EC2-instances/m-p/222564#M43636 <OL> <LI>Download <A href="http://www.splunk.com/en_us/download/universal-forwarder.html">appropriate binaries</A></LI> <LI>upload to EC2 instances</LI> <LI>Follow <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.2/Forwarding/Deployanixdfmanually#Install_the_universal_forwarder">installation instructions</A> to install the forwarder. It's no different than installing it on-prem.</LI> </OL> <P>And, in case you haven't seen this <A href="https://www.splunk.com/content/dam/splunk2/pdfs/technical-briefs/deploying-splunk-enterprise-on-amazon-web-services-technical-brief.pdf">TechBrief</A> yet, some overview information.</P> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:38:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-install-Splunk-forwarders-on-AWS-EC2-instances/m-p/222564#M43636 s2_splunk 2016-02-25T21:38:35Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-install-Splunk-forwarders-on-AWS-EC2-instances/m-p/222565#M43637 <P>Use ansible or some other deployment tool to load the binaries and configs<BR /> Use a deployment tool for the binaries, and Forwarder Manager to manage configs<BR /> Bake Splunk into a custom AMI and do a bit of post-config if you want, using the tool of choice</P> Tue, 01 Mar 2016 05:50:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-install-Splunk-forwarders-on-AWS-EC2-instances/m-p/222565#M43637 cmeo 2016-03-01T05:50:09Z