https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Installing-Universal-Forwarder-from-Command-line-and-Hangs-at/m-p/194683#M56149 <P>OK, reading this as somebody with only basic knowledge of the Windows forwarder install, it looks like you have /qn as parameters to msiexec, but I think the correct parameter to the splunkforwarder itself is /quiet according to the manuals. Could it simply be the installer wants to show you a user interface but msiexec is blocking it from doing so? Is there nothing in the logfile you specified (C:splunkinst.log)?</P> <P>I'm guessing you already know, but for completeness sake the manual for deploying the forwarder from the command-line can be found at <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Forwarding/DeployaWindowsdfviathecommandline">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Forwarding/DeployaWindowsdfviathecommandline</A>. </P> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:16:30 GMT mgbruin 2014-03-19T15:16:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Installing-Universal-Forwarder-from-Command-line-and-Hangs-at/m-p/194682#M56148 <P>I am installing the UF from a command prompt for deployment via SCCM 2012 with the following command line:<BR /> msiexec /i splunkforwarder-6.0.1-189883-x64-release.msi RECEIVING_INDEXER="ServerFQDN:Port" WINEVENTLOG_APP_ENABLE=1 WINEVENTLOG_SEC_ENABLE=1 WINEVENTLOG_SYS_ENABLE=1 AGREETOLICENSE=Yes /qn /lv c:\splunkinst.log<BR /> and the install does not error out, but will instead just sit at the following line:<BR /> ***Splunk_AddReceivingIndexer: Starting Splunk_AddReceivingIndexer<BR /> I've let it sit for over 24hrs. When I run a netstat -an on the server I can see that it is listening on the port that is passed in the command line. When I telnet from the machine I am installing to I can connect via that same port. Anyone have any ideas as to why it just isn't proceeding?</P> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:10:44 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Installing-Universal-Forwarder-from-Command-line-and-Hangs-at/m-p/194682#M56148 jamieralphsmith 2020-09-28T16:10:44Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Installing-Universal-Forwarder-from-Command-line-and-Hangs-at/m-p/194683#M56149 <P>OK, reading this as somebody with only basic knowledge of the Windows forwarder install, it looks like you have /qn as parameters to msiexec, but I think the correct parameter to the splunkforwarder itself is /quiet according to the manuals. Could it simply be the installer wants to show you a user interface but msiexec is blocking it from doing so? Is there nothing in the logfile you specified (C:splunkinst.log)?</P> <P>I'm guessing you already know, but for completeness sake the manual for deploying the forwarder from the command-line can be found at <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Forwarding/DeployaWindowsdfviathecommandline">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Forwarding/DeployaWindowsdfviathecommandline</A>. </P> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:16:30 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Installing-Universal-Forwarder-from-Command-line-and-Hangs-at/m-p/194683#M56149 mgbruin 2014-03-19T15:16:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Installing-Universal-Forwarder-from-Command-line-and-Hangs-at/m-p/194684#M56150 <P>I did try to run the install with the /quiet switch and received the same results (no interface popped up either). The log file shows no errors or even warnings up to that point.</P> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:35:06 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Installing-Universal-Forwarder-from-Command-line-and-Hangs-at/m-p/194684#M56150 jamieralphsmith 2014-03-19T15:35:06Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Installing-Universal-Forwarder-from-Command-line-and-Hangs-at/m-p/194685#M56151 <P>I did try to run the install with the /quiet switch and received the same results (no interface popped up either). The log file shows no errors or even warnings up to that point.</P> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:35:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Installing-Universal-Forwarder-from-Command-line-and-Hangs-at/m-p/194685#M56151 jamieralphsmith 2014-03-19T15:35:33Z