Installation

Trying to setup indexer cluster using ansible playbooks

proficio_ajk
Loves-to-Learn

I'm currently attempting to setup an environment using https://github.com/splunk/splunk-ansible.

When I run the playbook it creates the appropriate user-seed.conf but /opt/splunk/etc/passwd has no user. There for when it tries to run the commands to turn a server into the cluster manager or a peer it isn't able to do it.

Running Rocky Linux 8.

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proficio_ajk
Loves-to-Learn

Yep the playbook does create the user-seed.conf first then starts Splunk. The password.conf does not contain anything after it starts though.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The user-seed.conf file is not processed into etc/passwd until Splunk starts.  After that, you should be able to issue commands.

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