Hi all, I improved the yum repo creation/update script I made: It's a bash script that uses CURL to determine what files are available on the splunk download site, then  downloads the available packages and uses createrepo to turn them into a valid YUM repo. It checks/downloads RPMs for : splunk-enterprise and splunk-universal-forwarder It also includes an /etc/cron.d/ file that can be used to execute the script every night at 03:00 local time. https://github.com/grangerx/splunk-yum-repo Note: You'll have to give it a splunk.com login for it to be able to download the packages from splunk.com. ... View more

HI all, I'm not sure that the repo has to be publicly available to meet the purposes of the requester of this feature. There are companies (RedHat and EnterpriseDB, for example) that offer authenticated YUM repositories that are not publicly accessible, but still allow their customers to download and manage their packages via YUM. In that vein, here is a github repo that has a script that I wrote to perform a nightly download of the splunk-enterprise and splunk-universal-forwarder packages and generate a local YUM repo from them. https://github.com/grangerx/splunk-yum-repo I've been using it for a while, and it seems to get the job done in my case. Note: You'll have to give it a splunk.com login for it to be able to download the packages in an authenticated manner. Thanks, GrangerX ... View more