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How can I get Ansible script to automate installation of splunk universal forwarder on 1000 Linux Red Hat Servers??

ngwodo — Fri, 14 May 2021 05:22:51 GMT

Please I need detailed step-by-step process on how I can install splunk universal forwarder on 1000 linux red hat servers using ansible. Is there any automated process to do it? Please how will you set up ansible playbook to do this task?

Re: How can I get Ansible script to automate installation of splunk universal forwarder on 1000 Linux Red Hat Servers??

gcusello — Fri, 14 May 2021 05:41:04 GMT

Hi @ngwodo,

You can find more detailed infos at :

https://www.linuxsysadmins.com/splunk-forwarder-installation-using-ansible/

https://splunk.github.io/splunk-ansible/

https://bussenet.com/index.php/2019/02/09/automating-splunk-universal-forwarder-deployment-with-ansible/

https://github.com/splunk/splunk-ansible

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-I-get-Ansible-script-to-automate-installation-of-splunk/m-p/294836

If otherwise, you want to use a script to remotelly install Universal Forwarders using you can find informations in this my old answer https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-mass-deploy-Universal-forwarder-to-many-Linux-machines/m-p/310553

Ciao.

Giuseppe

Re: How can I get Ansible script to automate installation of splunk universal forwarder on 1000 Linux Red Hat Servers??

ngwodo — Fri, 14 May 2021 06:55:10 GMT

Thanks. I will try those processes at some point. I am just gathering information on how to do it for now.. I thank you very much.

Re: How can I get Ansible script to automate installation of splunk universal forwarder on 1000 Linux Red Hat Servers??

gcusello — Fri, 14 May 2021 07:02:46 GMT

Hi @ngwodo,

good for you, see next time!

Ciao and happy splunking.

Giuseppe

P.S.: Karma Points are appreciated 😉

Re: How can I get Ansible script to automate installation of splunk universal forwarder on 1000 Linux Red Hat Servers??

ngwodo — Fri, 14 May 2021 16:38:36 GMT

Thanks. Please just another quick question. Which section in the ansible scripts will I put 1000 linux servers? Would I put in the scripts IP addresses or how will ansible know which machines to deploy splunk UF to?

Re: How can I get Ansible script to automate installation of splunk universal forwarder on 1000 Linux Red Hat Servers??

gcusello — Sat, 15 May 2021 05:43:26 GMT

Hi @ngwodo,

I'm not an expert of Ansible, but you can see at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_intro.html

Ciao.

Giuseppe

P.S.: Karma Points are appreciated 😉

Re: How can I get Ansible script to automate installation of splunk universal forwarder on 1000 Linux Red Hat Servers??

RMcCurdyDOTcom — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:11:49 GMT

got nasty gram for posting links

search online for freeload101 github in scripts Splunk_UniversalForwarder_Installer.bash

Re: How can I get Ansible script to automate installation of splunk universal forwarder on 1000 Linux Red Hat Servers??

praveen1982 — Tue, 07 May 2024 21:32:10 GMT

Is there any playbook for setting up Heavy Forwarders ?