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What are SE linux recommendations for splunk forwarder?

kiranpanchavat1
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Can anyone advise the SE linux configurations for the Splunk universal forwarders ? 

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VatsalJagani
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@kiranpanchavat1 - It seems like you can use a generic Splunk UF tgz file for installation. And for Splunk configuration, it would always be the same.

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/download/universal-forwarder.html?locale=en_us

Again unless you have any issues. If you are doing installation for the first time, I would suggest to try on one of the test machine.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What problem are you trying to solve?

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