Install on HP-UX

Install on HP-UX

The HP-UX version of Splunk comes in a tarball.

To install Splunk on an HP-UX system, expand the tarball into an appropriate directory using the tar command:

tar xvzf splunk_package_name.tgz

The default install directory is splunk in the current working directory. To install into /opt/splunk, use the following command:

tar xvzf splunk_package_name.tgz -C /opt

Important: When you install Splunk from a tarball on HP-UX:

• You must use GNU tar. The system default tar on HP-UX will not successfully extract the splunk tarball. GNU tar is a pre-requisite. Alternatively, you can unpack the tarball on another platform.
• Splunk does not create the splunk user automatically. If you want Splunk to run as a specific user, you must create the user manually before installing.
• Ensure that the disk partition has enough space to hold the uncompressed volume of the data you plan to keep indexed.

Upgrading?

If you are upgrading, review the upgrade documentation later in this manual and check READ THIS FIRST for any migration considerations before proceeding.

Start Splunk

Splunk can run as any user on the local system. If you run Splunk as a non-root user, make sure that Splunk has the appropriate permissions to read the inputs that you specify.

To start Splunk from the command line interface, run the following command from $SPLUNK_HOME/bin directory (where $SPLUNK_HOME is the directory into which you installed Splunk):

 ./splunk start

By convention, this document uses:

• $SPLUNK_HOME to identify the path to your Splunk installation.
• $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/ to indicate the location of the command line interface.

Note: The HP-UX version of Splunk does not register itself to auto-start on reboot.

Startup options

The first time you start Splunk after a new installation, you must accept the license agreement. To start Splunk and accept the license in one step:

 $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk start --accept-license

Note: There are two dashes before the accept-license option.

Launch Splunk Web and log in

After you start Splunk and accept the license agreement,

1. In a browser window, access Splunk Web at

http://<hostname>:port

• hostname is the host machine.
• port is the port you specified during the installation (the default port is 8000).

2. Splunk Web prompts you for login information (default, username admin and password changeme) before it launches. If you switch to Splunk Free, you will bypass this logon page in future sessions.

What's next?

Now that you've installed Splunk, what comes next?

Manage your license

If you are performing a new installation of Splunk or switching from one license type to another, you must install or update your license.

Uninstall Splunk

To uninstall Splunk on HPUX, you must stop splunk, disable boot-start (if you configured it), and then delete the Splunk installation.

Note: The $SPLUNK_HOME variable refers to the directory where you installed Splunk.

1. Stop Splunk:

$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk stop

2. If you enabled boot-start, run the following command as root:

$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk disable boot-start

3. Delete the Splunk installation directories:

rm -rf $SPLUNK_HOME

Other things you may want to delete:

• If you created any indexes and did not use the Splunk default path, you must delete those directories as well.
• If you created a user or group for running Splunk, you should also delete them.

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