The problem with the method you suggest is that you must supply all of the version information for the forwarder when doing the wget command, and there doesn't seem a simple way to automate providing this information.  For example, to get the current version of the forwarder (as of this writing), you need to execute: wget -O splunkforwarder-8.0.6-152fb4b2bb96-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm 'https://www.splunk.com/bin/splunk/DownloadActivityServlet?architecture=x86_64&platform=linux&version=8.0.6&product=universalforwarder&filename=splunkforwarder-8.0.6-152fb4b2bb96-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm&wget=true' How do you automate the "version=8.0.6" and "filename=splunkforwarder-8.0.6-152fb4b2bb96-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm" values to be able to execute the "wget" command? ... View more

Very well stated.  That is all we are looking for as well.  Thanks! ... View more