topic Re: Splunk testing on Vrtual box in Installation

Splunk testing on Vrtual box

ravitalele — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:51:58 GMT

Hi,
I would like to do testing of forwarder. I have installed Splunk on my laptop. I have Ubuntu on virtual box on this laptop. Can I install Splunk Universal forwarder on Ubuntu and forward data to Splunk server on my windows host?

If yes, please send me the steps/configuration required.
Thanks,

Ravi

Re: Splunk testing on Vrtual box

Ayn — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:07:02 GMT

Yes, you can. Please take the time to read the excellent documentation that is fully available to you: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/Deploy/Deployanixdfmanually

Re: Splunk testing on Vrtual box

ravitalele — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:18:04 GMT

Do I use my laptop machine name as the receiving indexer's hostname at port 9997?

Re: Splunk testing on Vrtual box

Ayn — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:21:10 GMT

You can use whatever address you're using for reaching your host OS from your virtual machine. This is a virtual box networking question rather than a Splunk question.