My Splunk Folder is Missing

[OKumolalo]

Hello,

I am on Windows and am newer to Splunk and I have been doing so learning, so I was getting ready to follow along some modules. But when I went to try and open the \bin, I come to find out that I don't even have the Splunk folder in my Windows folder! The only folder I can find with the name Splunk is a .splunk folder under my laptop user. Did I do something wrong in the installation process, and is there a way to resolve this?

[PickleRick]

We have no way of knowing what you're talking about.

1. What system are you talking about? Windows I presume.

2. Did you install the Splunk software on the machine?

3. Which one? Splunk Enterprise or Universal Forwarder?

4. Did you alter the installation process in any way?

5. Did the installation complete successfully?

6. What exactly are your trying to do now?

[OKumolalo]

I apologize. Yes the system I'm talking about is windows. I installed the trial version of Splunk Enterprise software onto my laptop. When the installation wizard popped up I left everything as default settings and let the installation complete. What I was trying to do is open the bin, etc, and lib folders to follow along with a udemy class I was taking to see the /default and /local folders.

[PickleRick]

If you installed the windows version of Splunk with the default settings it should have installed itself into C:\Program Files\Splunk directory. Do you have this directory?

[OKumolalo]

No I do not. I have a folder under my user tab named .splunk and it was downloaded around the same time I initially installed the trial Splunk Enterprise. In this .splunk folder there is nothing as well.

[PickleRick]

That means that your installation has not completed successfully. If you try to run the installer again does it start a clean installation or does it offer to repair/uninstall? Do you have a service which should be starting the Splunk process in your system? Do your eventlogs say anything reasonable about the installation process?
There might also be a log file from the installation in the %temp% directory (it should be called MSIsomething.log). You can also try to install Splunk again this time explicitly requesting to create a installation log.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/msi/command-line-options?redirectedfrom=MSDN

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.2.2/Installation/InstallonWindowsviathecommandline