Is there a repository or public URL available to download Splunk upgrades? (Not via splunk.com)

[jnilsson]

Hello, I've read the official docs pages on upgrading splunk, but they don't actually ever give direct instructions.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.2/Installation/HowtoupgradeSplunk

I don't have a complicated splunk install. It's installed on one server, not a distributed or clustered anything. And it's CentOS. So I'm looking either for a yum repository or some easy way to script getting the rpm or tar. I hate having to log in on the Splunk website and navigate their terrible UI to find the download.

If there isn't a repository available, does anyone know if they make their downloads available via some mirror or other public URL, using predictable path/file names?

Does everyone just manually login to download the latest Splunk files for all their architecture versions and distribute them by hand?

[richgalloway · Accepted solution]

For export control and other reasons, you must authenticate to be able to download Splunk. That is why it is not available from a repository. Once you've downloaded it once, however, you can put it into a repository of your own and have your script pull it from there.