Unattended installation of universal forwarder

[andresriancho]

I'm trying to install splunkforwarder-5.0.1-143156-linux-2.6-amd64.deb in an automated, unattended way using fabric. The issue is that when starting splunk universal forwarder for the first time using:

/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk start

You need to accept the terms and conditions, which is difficult to automate. Is there a way to avoid that message from showing? What would be the ideal solution is:

/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk start --accept-terms-and-conditions

Which would simply start the daemon without asking any questions.

PS: This is not a fabric issue but a splunk one.

[khourihan_splun]

Update to the first link above, doc has moved to: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.1/Forwarding/DeployaWindowsdfviathecommandline

and for *nix the new link: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.1/Forwarding/Deployanixdfmanually

[yannK · Accepted solution]

the option exists and is --accept-license

see the list of flags for windows : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Deploy/DeployaWindowsdfviathecommandline
and for linux http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Deploy/Deployanixdfmanually

[andresriancho]

Awesome! Thanks! 🙂