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Launch Splunk

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Launch Splunk

This topic assumes you have downloaded Splunk and successfully installed it on your system. See Choose your platform in the Installation manual to find instructions for setting the necessary permissions and installing Splunk on your platform. Also see Download, install, and start Splunk in the User manual for more details about starting Splunk.

Start the Splunk server on Unix

To start Splunk on a Unix operating system, enter:

$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk start

where $SPLUNK_HOME is your Splunk installation directory. Follow the prompts to accept the license and choose a port.

Start the Splunk server on Windows

This example is pretty much Java/Unix-centric, but at least you can get started. To start Splunk from the command line on Windows, enter:

$SPLUNK_HOME\bin\splunk start

where $SPLUNK_HOME is your Splunk installation directory. Follow the prompts to accept the license and choose a port.

To start Splunk via the Services Manager on Windows, open the Service Manager (Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services) and start the splunkd service.

Note: Splunk can run as any user on your local system. Make sure to run Splunk with a user that has permissions to the data you want to use.

See Start Splunk for the first time in the Installation manual for more information about starting Splunk.

Open the web interface

Once you have installed and started Splunk, you can access it from any browser.

1. Open a browser and navigate to the following URL:

http://splunkhost:8000

Note: Use whatever host and port you chose during installation. If you're running Splunk from a different machine than the one you're browsing on, or if you're using a different port than the default (8000), change the values as necessary.

2. If Splunk shows an authorization screen, use the following default credentials. (Do not use the credentials you created to download Splunk.)

Username   admin
Password changeme

3. When you first log into Splunk, you see the Launcher. It shows a bunch of different apps which are collections of views that you can use with Splunk.

AppManageLauncher.png

4. Click the Search app icon to open the default interface for creating and running searches. See Explore the Search app for more information.

AppManageSearchClean.png

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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.1 , 4.1.1 , 4.1.2 , 4.1.3 , 4.1.4 , 4.1.5 , 4.1.6 , 4.1.7 , 4.1.8 View the Article History for its revisions.


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