As a beginner, how do I actually get to the Splunk CLI to put commands in ?

[jboike]

As a beginner, how do I actually get to the Splunk CLI to put commands in ?

[ChrisG]

See About the CLI in the Admin Manual.

Briefly:

1. Add $SPLUNK_HOME/bin to your path.
2. Invoke CLI commands with ./splunk commandName

[MuS]

or you install this app https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1607/ and access it in the Splunk UI without worrying where to cd to 😉 You will be directly in the right place and can start using the cli as Splunk user...

cheers, MuS

[Richfez]

MuS, you are amazing. 🙂

[richgalloway]

You need a shell account on the server on which Splunk runs (Windows, Linux). You also need permission to run Splunk (SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk).