I am trying to UPGRADE using Ansible, I kick off the playbook via the bastion host. Here are the tasks. 1. copy the install file to remote 2. stop the Splunk service 3. install Splunk Forwarder 9.1 4. reboot 5. start the Splunk service All are fine until step 4. I ssh to the specific host and checked the status. It was not running. I scratched my head and tried something like below. sudo to root /opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk version it prompted for the license & perform upgrade message. I typed Y for both options. after a few minutes (it showed a message to disable boot start), returned to prompt. disabled boot start reboot sudo systemctl start splunk Finally, it's up & running.  How do I fix step 5. I have 100s of ec2 instances to upgrade.   ... View more