Installation

Is there a better way to install the universal forwarder over the command line?

mp32
New Member

I'm running this command in Powershell to try to install a Universal Forwarder on my windows 2019 server 

 

msiexec.exe /i "C:\TEMP\splunkforwarder-9.0.0.1-9e907cedecb1-x64-release.msi" WINEVENTLOG_APP_ENABLE=0 WINEVENTLOG_SEC_ENABLE=0 WINEVENTLOG_SYS_ENABLE=0 WINEVENTLOG_FWD_ENABLE=0 WINEVENTLOG_SET_ENABLE=0 AGREETOLICENSE=Yes SERVICESTARTTYPE=auto DEPLOYMENT_SERVER="deployment.splunk.uic.edu:8089" /norestart

 


I'm running into this error and not sure why:

 

This isntallation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a Valid windows installer package.

 

 

Is there a better way to install the universal forwarder over the command line?

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manjunathmeti
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You are following the recommended way.

Check if you've met prerequisites mentioned: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.4/Installation/InstallonWindowsviathecommandline#Pr...

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