Splunk testing on Vrtual box

[ravitalele]

Hi,
I would like to do testing of forwarder. I have installed Splunk on my laptop. I have Ubuntu on virtual box on this laptop. Can I install Splunk Universal forwarder on Ubuntu and forward data to Splunk server on my windows host?

If yes, please send me the steps/configuration required.
Thanks,

Ravi

[Ayn · Accepted solution]

Yes, you can. Please take the time to read the excellent documentation that is fully available to you: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/Deploy/Deployanixdfmanually

[Ayn]

You can use whatever address you're using for reaching your host OS from your virtual machine. This is a virtual box networking question rather than a Splunk question.

[ravitalele]

Do I use my laptop machine name as the receiving indexer's hostname at port 9997?