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Deployment,Search Head,Indexer,Forwarder simple setup

rjantarasami
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Please correct my simple step by step in linux environment:

Forwarder :
-Install splunkforwarder, accept license, enable boot-start.
-/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk add forward-server ip-myindexer-server:9997
-/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk list forward-server
-/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk add monitor /var/log/apache/logs/ -index main -sourcetype %app%

Indexer :
-install splunk enterprise, accept license, enable boot-start.
-/opt/splunk/bin/splunk enable listen 9997

Search Head :
I dont know how to add indexer using CLI ?

Deployment Server :
I dont know how to setup here ?

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