Installation

Does splunk Enterprise support Debian distribution?

kyoshiike
Explorer

Folks,

Please clarify if my understanding is correct or not.

We can see current system requirement of linux kernel version at below link.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Installation/Systemrequirements

From this page,  my understanding is splunk officially support "ANY" linux distribution that uses supported kernel version. So if I use Debian10 with kernel 5.4 or 4.x, I can use UF on that environment. Am I right?

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @kyoshiike,

yes: you can install both Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Universal Forwarder on any Linux distribution using kernel 4.x or 5.x.

In my experience, I used both the above products on all the Linux distributions and I found some problem only on AIX.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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kyoshiike
Explorer

Many thnaks!!

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @kyoshiike,

yes: you can install both Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Universal Forwarder on any Linux distribution using kernel 4.x or 5.x.

In my experience, I used both the above products on all the Linux distributions and I found some problem only on AIX.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @kyoshiike,

good for you, see next time!

Ciao and happy splunking

Giuseppe

P.S.: Karma Points are appreciated 😉

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