How to troubleshoot why Splunk Enterprise won't install on Server 2008 R2?

[jweir]

Gets partly through the install and the rolls back.

Are there any installation logs that may tell me what's holding things back?

Thanks,
Jason

[dominiquevocat]

We have the same issue and a support case open. No solution as of the last few err months...

[wcolgate_splunk]

You can check the %temp% directory of the user that installed splunk and look for a MSIxxxxxxx.log file. If you have many of them -- look for the one that installed splunk.

If you cannot find it, you can explicitly create an install log file with the following cli command:

$ msiexec /i /l*v

The Microsoft MSI installer subsystem will create a log file there. Once created we can crack it open and look to see what is going on.

[richgalloway]

Which product won't install? Enterprise, forwarder, Hunk?

[jweir]

Sorry about that - Enterprise

[richgalloway]

It's been a long time since I installed Splunk on Win2008R2 and I no longer have that system.

There are three places I can think of to look:

C:\, C:\Windows\Temp, and the Event Viewer.