How to set up a lab environment for Splunk Enterprise?

[Manju_Splunk]

Hi,

I would like to create an environment to practice Splunk enterprise as standalone Deployment  in Windows and I would also like to know that where to run the commands  as we do for linux

[ITWhisperer]

Depending on your windows build, you may be able to use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) - I use it with an Ubuntu distribution. It can be a bit tricky to set up as the default networking set up is a bit flaky between modes 1 and 2 - I think I had to switch to 2 to set up ip addresses and then switch back to 1 for normal running. Not for the faint-hearted.

[richgalloway]

Splunk is free to use on your Windows workstation.  Just download it from splunk.com and install it.

Use the Windows Command Prompt app for the CLI.  Remember to use ".\splunk.exe" instead of "./splunk" in commands.

[isoutamo]

Another option which I haven't try by myself, but have heard that it could work. Install linux subsystem on windows and then use it to run linux version. Not as easy solution than what @richgalloway told, but maybe it's closer for unix?