Installation

tell me the reason for: Unable to start the service: Access is denied.

jathinroyal
New Member

I am unable to start splunk it shows like access denied tell me to start splunk in windows

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Run Command Prompt as Administrator and start Splunk from there.

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ashvinpandey
Contributor

@jathinroyal 

You can start and stop Splunk Enterprise on Windows in one of the following ways:

Use the Windows Services control panel.

  1. Click the Start Button and type "services."
  2. Select the Services control panel option.
  3. In the Services control panel, find the Splunkd Service service.
  4. Start or stop the service.

Use the NET START or NET STOP commands.

  1. Open an administrative command prompt.
  2. Type: NET START splunkd or NET STOP splunkd.

Use the Splunk Enterprise executable.

  1. Open an administrative command prompt.
  2. Change the path to %SPLUNK_HOME%\bin.
  3. Type: splunk [start|stop|restart].

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