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How to prepare a forwarder script for a silent installation on Windows?

dabany — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 08:54:58 GMT

Hello everyone,

I need your help to prepare a forwarder script (silent installation) that will be on my Windows (empty installation).

Re: How to prepare a forwarder script for a silent installation on Windows?

ddrillic — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 14:32:45 GMT

I have been using the following -

msiexec.exe /i splunkforwarder-6.5.1-f74036626f0c-x64-release.msi  INSTALLDIR="E:\opt\splunk" DEPLOYMENT_SERVER="<host>:8089" AGREETOLICENSE=Yes SERVICESTARTTYPE=auto LAUNCHSPLUNK=1 /quiet

Re: How to prepare a forwarder script for a silent installation on Windows?

FrankVl — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 07:45:45 GMT

The comment from ddrillic should get you on the right track.

On top of that, I'd suggest to add some code to the script to generate a random password for the admin user and set that through the CLI after install.