topic Re: Disabling Welcome Screen in Knowledge Management

Disabling Welcome Screen

jkfierro — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:00:21 GMT

When you navigate to your Splunk webpage, you first come to a screen that checks for updates and then gives you the option to continue or install the update. Then you continue on to whichever application(s) you have configured.

I'd like to disable this initial screen and go straight to the default app - search app for instance. So by going to https://localhost I go straight to the Search app.

How is this possible? Note I am using the free version.

Thanks

Re: Disabling Welcome Screen

ftk — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:51:14 GMT

You will want to modify the updateCheckerBaseURL in your web.conf:

serviceFormPostURL = http://headlamp.Splunk.com/event/add
userRegistrationURL = https://www.Splunk.com/index.php/pre_reg?destination=prod_reg
updateCheckerBaseURL = http://quickdraw.Splunk.com/js/
   * These are various Splunk.com urls that are configurable. 
   * Setting updateCheckerBaseURL to 0 will stop the SplunkWeb from pinging Splunk.com 
     for new versions of itself.

So basically you want to add a web.conf at $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/web.conf with the following:

[settings]
updateCheckerBaseURL = 0

Then restart splunk for the settings to take effect.

Re: Disabling Welcome Screen

tier2ops — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:48:56 GMT

This does not work on the Enterprise version.

How can the check for new versions be disabled on Enterprise Splunk.

Re: Disabling Welcome Screen

adylent — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:26:25 GMT

Is there a way to disable this for Splunk 6 Enterprise?

Re: Disabling Welcome Screen

bsherwoodofdapt — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:24:03 GMT

I know this still works for Splunk 6 - free license. I just applied it myself.

Thank you for taking the moment to point out (subtly) that a user should build a simple file in the LOCAL sub directory to create a single key override, instead of editing the copy in the DEFAULT directory.

Re: Disabling Welcome Screen

oddrune — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 13:25:39 GMT

The solution with updateCheckerBaseURL worked for me with Splunk 6 enteprise 8build 182037). Thanks.

Re: Disabling Welcome Screen

bbiandov — Thu, 26 May 2016 15:45:18 GMT

Worked for me on Enterprise 6.3.2 Build aaff59bb082c