How do I validate that boot-start was indeed enabled?

[ddrillic]

As the Splunk farm grows we end up with servers for which the boot-start was not enabled and for heaven’s sake, splunk started as root. How do I validate that the boot-start was enabled? Hopefully across the cluster…

[bmunson_splunk]

This command will check both init-d and systemd on unix. Without the sudo should work on windows.

sudo ./splunk display boot-start

[phil_wong]

Sorry... startwebserver means only Web (aka :8000) I guess. Does it really imply boot-start?

[ddrillic]

On our Linux machines the /etc/rc.d/init.d/splunk script exists on the servers which have the boot-start enabled.

[skoelpin · Accepted solution]

Try this

| rest /services/server/settings
| fields + startwebserver  splunk_server

I'm not 100% sure if startwebserver is boot-start