Splunk Search

setup and search matters

HY
Explorer

What are the configuration/setup I have to do in order to use Splunk in Redhat Enterprise Linux? What is the reason of why I can't search anything like top 10 process by CPU that kind of thing, and it shows no search results in redhat Enterprise Linux?

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MarioM
Motivator

To install full Splunk on Redhat as per documentation here is the instruction:
RedHat RPM install:
Install on Linux

And for the universal forwarder:
Deploy a *nix universal forwarder manually

Then you need to install Splunk for Unix and Linux app and go through the setup:
Splunk for Unix and Linux

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Ayn
Legend

I think it's wiser to take the pains to go through the process of installing everything and learning about how it works in the process rather than taking a step-by-step list compiled by someone here. There is excellent documentation in the links MarioM provided.

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HY
Explorer

I looked at all the instructions for all the links you had provided for me but I couldn't understand. May I appreciate you to explain all the configurations needed for Linux because I keep having problems with the search portion in Splunk?

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