Getting Data In

Is there a way to determine if a Linux Splunk Forwarder has accepted the license after it's been installed?

jmaple
Communicator

Is there a way yo determine if the license has been accepted on a fresh installation or upgrade of a universal forwarder on a *nix machine? A file/line in a file that aren't present until after the license is accetped? I'm using BigFix to deploy the 6.2.3 upgrade in our environment and don't have access to the *nix machines and need to confirm that the task completes.

1 Solution

acharlieh
Influencer

Quickly installing the UF on a VM, and doing a recursive LS on the contents, accepting the license, and doing the same, it looks like the best thing to check would be the existence of the $SPLUNK_HOME/ftr file. If that exists then the license has NOT yet been accepted. There are a number of other changes on first run, but in an upgrade scenario I would think the majority of these should already exist.

View solution in original post

acharlieh
Influencer

Quickly installing the UF on a VM, and doing a recursive LS on the contents, accepting the license, and doing the same, it looks like the best thing to check would be the existence of the $SPLUNK_HOME/ftr file. If that exists then the license has NOT yet been accepted. There are a number of other changes on first run, but in an upgrade scenario I would think the majority of these should already exist.

jmaple
Communicator

Looks like that's exactly what I was looking for. Much appreciated.

0 Karma
Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Developer Spotlight with Paul Stout

Welcome to our very first developer spotlight release series where we'll feature some awesome Splunk ...

State of Splunk Careers 2024: Maximizing Career Outcomes and the Continued Value of ...

For the past four years, Splunk has partnered with Enterprise Strategy Group to conduct a survey that gauges ...

Data-Driven Success: Splunk & Financial Services

Splunk streamlines the process of extracting insights from large volumes of data. In this fast-paced world, ...