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Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide

By : James H. Baxter
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Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide

By: James H. Baxter

Overview of this book

Splunk is a leading platform and solution for collecting, searching, and extracting value from ever increasing amounts of big data - and big data is eating the world! This book covers all the crucial Splunk topics and gives you the information and examples to get the immediate job done. You will find enough insights to support further research and use Splunk to suit any business environment or situation. Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide gives you a thorough understanding of how Splunk works. You will learn about all the critical tasks for architecting, implementing, administering, and utilizing Splunk Enterprise to collect, store, retrieve, format, analyze, and visualize machine data. You will find step-by-step examples based on real-world experience and practical use cases that are applicable to all Splunk environments. There is a careful balance between adequate coverage of all the critical topics with short but relevant deep-dives into the configuration options and steps to carry out the day-to-day tasks that matter. By the end of the book, you will be a confident and proficient Splunk architect and administrator.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Installing Splunk Enterprise

Installing Splunk is a fairly easy and straightforward process if you've make adequate preparations, as we did in the previous chapter. You will find a list of system requirements for your choice of operating system, as well as full instructions for installing Splunk for each type in the Installation Manual: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Installation/Whatsinthismanual.

That is a fairly long document to read through – make sure that you at least read the system requirements section: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Installation/Systemrequirements.

Note that if you are utilizing AWS EC2 instances for your Splunk deployment, Amazon offers an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) that includes Splunk Enterprise 7.x (at the time of writing this book), so if you pick this AMI as you spin up your instance, it will come...