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How to connect a heavy forwarder to Splunk Cloud?

Dayane_tr
Path Finder

Hello,

I have a linux machine where Splunk Enterprise is installed and I would like to use Heavy forwarder to send the files to the cloud.

How do I install the "app"(splunkclouduf.spl)  from the cloud instance in Splunk Enterprise? 

I don't have access to the Splunk Enterprise web interface, only access to the linux machine.

Regards

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I never remember the proper syntax, but it's either

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk app install app_package.spl

or

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk install app app_package.spl

 

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Roy_9
Motivator

@Dayane_tr  After the untar is done as rich suggested, you should open a FW connection from HF to Splunk Cloud(basically will be as inputs*.abc.splunkcloud.com) something like that on port 9997.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Install the app like you would install any other app on the command line.  Untar the file to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps then restart the HF.

tar -zxf splunkclouduf.spl -C /opt/splunk/etc/apps
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