Installation

Download page for splunk forwarder broken?

viktor_uppstrom
Engager

I'm trying to install the universal forwader to a 64 bit Ubuntu machine running Apache. However, i can't access the site to find a download link (wget). The https://www.splunk.com/en_us/download/universal-forwarder.html page is not showing anything.

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renjith_nair
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@viktor_uppstromer,

Try this link

wget -O splunkforwarder-7.1.3-51d9cac7b837-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm 'https://www.splunk.com/bin/splunk/DownloadActivityServlet?architecture=x86_64&platform=linux&version=7.1.3&product=universalforwarder&filename=splunkforwarder-7.1.3-51d9cac7b837-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm&wget=true'

Try this link for getting a wget option directly Download using wget

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493669
Super Champion

Seems to be temporary issue with site..Now it's working fine-
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/download/universal-forwarder.html

viktor_uppstrom
Engager

Thank you, yes it appears to be up again.

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renjith_nair
Legend

@viktor_uppstromer,

Try this link

wget -O splunkforwarder-7.1.3-51d9cac7b837-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm 'https://www.splunk.com/bin/splunk/DownloadActivityServlet?architecture=x86_64&platform=linux&version=7.1.3&product=universalforwarder&filename=splunkforwarder-7.1.3-51d9cac7b837-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm&wget=true'

Try this link for getting a wget option directly Download using wget

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