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Admin Manual

 


Welcome
What to do first
Start Splunk
Meet Splunk Web and Splunk Apps
Before you configure
Add data and configure inputs
Indexing and event processing
Timestamps
Add and manage users
Manage indexes
Define alerts
Set up backups and retention policies
Configure data security
Set up forwarding and receiving
Deploy to other Splunk instances
Set up distributed search
Manage search jobs
Use Splunk's command line interface (CLI)
Configuration file reference
Troubleshooting

Start Splunk on Windows

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Start Splunk on Windows

On Windows, Splunk is installed by default into C:\Program Files\Splunk. Many examples in the Splunk documentation use $SPLUNK_HOME to indicate the Splunk installation, or home, directory. You can replace the string $SPLUNK_HOME with C:\Program Files\Splunk if you installed Splunk into the default directory.

Start and stop the following Splunk processes via the Windows Services Manager:

You can also start, stop, and restart both processes at once by going to \Program Files\Splunk\bin and typing

# splunk [start|stop|restart]

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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.0 , 4.0.1 , 4.0.2 , 4.0.3 , 4.0.4 , 4.0.5 , 4.0.6 , 4.0.7 , 4.0.8 , 4.0.9 , 4.0.10 , 4.0.11 View the Article History for its revisions.


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