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configuring splunk to start at boot time config file

aaronkorn — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:53:13 GMT

Is there a .conf file in splunk where you can configure splunk to start at boot time?

Re: configuring splunk to start at boot time config file

martin_mueller — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:13:34 GMT

There's a CLI command: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/admin/ConfigureSplunktostartatboottime

Re: configuring splunk to start at boot time config file

phoffman_splunk — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:13:40 GMT

here you go:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/admin/ConfigureSplunktostartatboottime

Re: configuring splunk to start at boot time config file

gfuente — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:14:50 GMT

Hello

You can run this command from the splunk/bin folder:

./splunk enable boot-start -user splunk

Or any other user you want splunk start with

Regards

Re: configuring splunk to start at boot time config file

aaronkorn — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:17:14 GMT

Hello, I know there is a CLI command for it but we forgot to do this on a couple UF and would like to do a mass config change. We are just looking for a particular flag in a .conf file to set and push out.

Re: configuring splunk to start at boot time config file

aholzer — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:29:36 GMT

I don't believe it's a change in a splunk .conf file. When you run the CLI that several people mentioned below, it will make an entry into /etc/init.d I believe. That's where you'd have to check, but you can't roll something out via the deployment server to that location.

You may want to write a script that takes a list of hosts and runs the CLI on each host.