Splunk App for VMware: Why am I unable to autostart Splunk on my VMware data collection node?

[HCadmins]

I am trying to autostart Splunk on my VMware data collection node. I am in $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/

splunk enable boot-start returns Can't create RC file "/etc/init.d/splunk": Permission denied

sudo splunk enable boot-start returns sudo: splunk: command not found

I am logged in as splunkadmin

Could someone explain what's going on here?

[twinspop]

you'll need to specify the full path to the splunk binary:

sudo /app/splunk/bin/splunk enable boot-start

For example. Replace with your path as required.

Also, do NOT forget to update the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/splunk-launch.conf file with the appropriate username:

SPLUNK_OS_USER=splunkadmin

[beatus]

HCadmins,
I'd recommend using full file paths when trying to enable boot start, such as:

sudo /opt/splunk/bin/splunk enable boot-start

Where "/opt/splunk" is "$SPLUNK_HOME", so adjust accordingly. The problem is once you run sudo you no longer have "$SPLUNK_HOME" in your environment variables.

Alternatively if you're in the correct directory you can tell sudo that the binary is in the current directory by doing:

sudo ./splunk enable boot-start