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Splunk Enterprise Search Tutorial 8.2.2: Generated: 9/02/2021 10:18 Am
Splunk Enterprise Search Tutorial 8.2.2: Generated: 9/02/2021 10:18 Am
Splunk Enterprise Search Tutorial 8.2.2: Generated: 9/02/2021 10:18 Am
These steps apply only to Splunk Enterprise. If you're using Splunk Cloud, go to Navigating Splunk Web.
After you download and install the software, you must start Splunk Enterprise and launch Splunk Web. Splunk Web is the
user interface for Splunk Enterprise that you access using a Web browser.
After you install Splunk Enterprise, use the Splunk CLI to start Splunk Enterprise.
Prerequisite
You need to understand how to access the CLI. See About the CLI in the Admin Manual.
Steps
1. Use the Splunk Enterprise command-line interface (CLI)/code> and navigate to the bin directory:
cd <Splunk_Enterprise_Installation_Directory>/bin
./splunk start
2. You are prompted to create the Splunk Enterprise admin username. This is the username that you use to log into
Splunk Enterprise with, not the username that you use to log into your computer or into splunk.com. You can
press Enter to use the default username of admin.
Splunk software must create an administrator account during startup. Otherwise, you cannot log in.
Create credentials for the administrator account.
Characters do not appear on the screen when you type the password.
export SPLUNK_HOME=<Splunk_Enterprise_Installation_Directory>
cd $SPLUNK_HOME/bin
6. Start Splunk Enterprise.
./splunk start
7. Accept the Splunk Enterprise license.
After you run the start command, Splunk Enterprise displays the license agreement and prompts you to accept
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the license before the startup sequence continues.
If you have problems starting Splunk Enterprise, see Start Splunk Enterprise for the first time in the Installation
Manual.
8. Now login to Splunk Web.
If you need to stop, restart, or check the status of your Splunk Enterprise server, use these CLI commands:
$ splunk stop
$ splunk restart
$ splunk status
Start Splunk Enterprise on Windows
After the Windows installation finishes, Splunk Enterprise starts and opens Splunk Web in your Web browser.
If Splunk Enterprise does not start, use one of the following options to start it.
Splunk Web runs by default on port 8000 of the host on which it is installed. If you use Splunk Enterprise on your local
machine, the URL to access Splunk Web is http://localhost:8000.
When you launch Splunk Enterprise for the first time, this login screen appears.
1. Login using the username and the password that you specified when you installed Splunk Enterprise.
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2. The Help us improve Splunk software window appears. Read each of the types of usage collection and click
OK or Skip.
Next step
You have downloaded the tutorial data files and installed Splunk Enterprise.