Tool to check pre-requisites prior installing Splunk

[ansif]

Is there any tool to check prerequisites prior installing Splunk enterprise edition in Linux?

[woodcock]

Use the RPM packaged version and not the TGZ version and let the package manager tell you.

[ansif]

RDP Package? Is there an enterprise version available?

[woodcock]

HA HA HA! I meant RPM! I fixed it.

[ansif]

Thats ok. So while installing via RPM it throws error showing prerequisite not met?

[woodcock]

Yes, that is the main idea behind the package manager.

[traxxasbreaker]

For full Splunk Enterprise, you could install it first then use the instance's Monitoring Console to do a health check that will look for common issues like ulimits being too low, THP being enabled, etc before you configure it for whatever role it will have, but that won't detect your own prerequisites like having a specific account there to run Splunk or specific filesystem sizes/types/layouts.

Alternatively, you could use a configuration management tool like Puppet to put all the prerequisites in place including any of your own, then make sure it didn't error out on anything. That provides the additional benefit of deploying those prerequisites in addition to reporting on their presence.