Almost bizarre that there is no repo available for a product pretending a bussiness product.  ... View more

Unfortunately Splunk does not support that option. Most people would not like that option either. However you are more than welcome to submit that to Splunk to provide this feature in the future. https://ideas.splunk.com/  I've been using the same msi for a few months now. It's not always the best thing to install the most up-to-date version of an application for every single server that gets spun up going forward. Unexpected things happen, and upgrading can be an issue, not to mention having to track those versions.  The version of Splunk forwarder supports Splunk for a while. We had to upgrade some of our servers running version 6 of the Forwarding software for the Splunk Enterprise 8.0 release. ... View more