Database Reference
In-Depth Information
7. Log out of Splunk and log back in. This will conclude the installation.
Splunk for Mac
To install Splunk on your Mac OS X, we will follow the following steps:
1. Go to
http://www.splunk.com/
and click on
Sign Up
in the top-right corner to cre-
ate a Splunk.com account.
Note
Make note of your username and password. This is your Splunk.com account in-
formation and will be referred to as such from here on.
2. Once you have successfully created an account and have logged in, go to the
Products
menu and select
Splunk Enterprise
. On the resulting page (
What is
Splunk Enterprise?
), click on the green
Download Splunk
button.
3. On the downloads page, click on the first download link (similar to
splunk-6.1.5-XXXXXX-macosx-10.7-intel.dmg
, where
XXXXXX
is
replaced by a set of numbers) underneath the OS X downloads list.
4. Open the DMG (disk image) file after it finishes downloading. A window with a
shortcut to
Install Splunk
should appear. Double-click on this icon to launch the
Splunk installer.
5. Go through the installer. After the install completes, Splunk will prompt you to
start the Splunk service that runs in the background and will eventually open a
browser interface to Splunk.
Note
During installation, you may be prompted to install the command-line developer
tools; if you see this message, you can click on
Not Now
and continue with the
installation.
6. Log in with the default credentials (
admin : changeme
). Change the pass-
word if desired.
Note
These credentials are what you'll use to log in to Splunk on your machine and are
different from the credentials of the Splunk.com account you previously created.
