New to Splunk

[gayatribala1]

Hi! I'm a mainframe pro with experience in Cobol,DB2 development and i just happened to get interested in splunk through general reading on the net. Are there any prerequisites to learning Splunk?

Please guide me as to how i should go about picking up the new skill to be employable.

Thanks,
Gayatri.

[zeroactive]

• Get Dev License: http://dev.splunk.com/
  
• Docs: http://docs.splunk.com
• This site (congrats as you are already here)

• The Splunk Book - Free at - http://www.splunk.com/goto/book

• If you have money to spend, the Splunk Conference first week of Oct. http://conf.splunk.com

[lukejadamec]

No prior study is required, in fact I recommend against it.

Download Splunk, install it, download some apps that suit the software you have on your systems.

Get some data indexed.

When you're done with that, you can start reading/researching, and the tutorial will make much more sense.

If you need licensing support, contact Splunk Support.

[498773]

Get yourself acquainted by installing splunk first, you can get a developer trail license as well for 6 months.

The Flow in splunk would be

• Data Consumption through Forwarders
• Data Indexing By Splunk Indexers
• Dashboard and apps for reporting

Very good documentation is available at http://docs.splunk.com

[kristian_kolb]

The online documentation is a good place to start, there is a special Tutorial section, and you can download a slightly limited version to run for free forever - i.e. lots of time to play around.

And yes, you'll probably need to learn some regex.

/K

[HiroshiSatoh]

I did a study of the following When dealing with SPLUNK.
regex, html, css, xml, json, python, CherryPy

It is still studying.

However, try out Splunk is easy. You can use it easy to install in their computers. Please ascertaining what he needs to, to experience.