How do you restart splunk?

[richgalloway]

How do you restart splunk?

(originally a response to https://answers.splunk.com/answers/386613/how-do-i-reset-the-password-if-i-do-not-remember-t.html#an...)

[vinaybandaru]

what is the difference between two types of restart ?
1) Settings -> Server controls
2) /opt/splunk/bin/splunk start

[jacobpevans]

There is no difference assuming you mean restart instead of start. You can't start via the GUI since the GUI would not be up.

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk restart

[xpac]

Alternative option, via the Web GUI:

Settings -> Server controls

Hope that helps - if it does I'd be happy if you would upvote/accept this answer, so others could profit from it. 🙂

[solarboyz1]

From the command line on Linux (default RHEL install location)

# /opt/splunk/bin/splunk start