Certificate file path is not provided- Do I require one to install forwarders?

[Bronx_hax]

I an creating a home test Lab with Splunk and i am was trying to install Splunk Universal Forwarder on one of my machines but the error below keeps popping up saying "Certificate file path is not provided".  My previous installations did not as for certificate file path. Do i require to acquire some certificate in order to install the forwarders please?

 

[Simple_Search]

You do not require your own certificates for the Splunk Universal Forwarder, Splunk ships with default ones and can be installed without your own. As you can see in the message that if you dont provide one the default ones will be used. There must be something else that is going on with the installer or system configuration that is prompting this. Trying installing via the command line with the /quiet tag to see if that circumvents this issue.