How to run splunk forwarder on system startup

[anil1432]

We have new servers in which we installed new Splunk forwarders that are running fine. In case of a system reboot, we would like to also start it up automatically. I noticed that our old servers has this file /etc/rc.d/init.d/splunk which is described in this guide

 https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.2/Admin/ConfigureSplunktostartatboottime

We don’t know who configured it for our old servers, but may I confirm that I need to follow the steps in the previous link and that I also need to be a root user to run splunk enable boot-start -user <preferred user>?.

Please can you give brief explanation and solutions please 

[richgalloway · Accepted solution]

New systems tend to use systemd to start processes at boot-time.  If yours does not then you can use your old init.d file; otherwise, run the enable boot-start command to have Splunk build a systemd startup file. 

Yes, you must be root to enable boot-start.

[anil1432]

Thank you very much . I got it .👍😊😊