Hi, the basic commands that help to start off splunk are, splunk help - display usage summary splunk help display the details of a specific object splunk [start | stop | restart] - Start, stop and restart splunk splunk start --accept-license - automatically accept the license without prompt splunk status -display the splunk process status splunk show splunkd-port - show the port that the splunkd listens on splunk show web-port - show the port that splunk web listens on splunk show servername - show the servername of this instance splunk show default-hostname - show the default host name used for all data inputs and this below link have the reference to CLI commands for troubleshooting http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/Troubleshooting/CommandlinetoolsforusewithSupport ... View more