Advanced Deployments - Implementing Splunk: Big Data Reporting and Development for Operational Intelligence - page 353

The typical installation process involves the following process:

1. Installing the binary.
2. Adding a base configuration.
3. Configuring Splunk to launch at boot.
4. Restarting Splunk.

Having worked with many different companies over the years, I
can honestly say that none of them used the same product or even
methodology for deploying software. Splunk takes a hands-off
approach to fit in as easily as possible into customer workflows.

Deploying from a tar file
To deploy from a tar file, the command depends on your version of tar.
With a modern version of tar, you can run the following command:

tar xvzf splunk-4.3.x-xxx-Linux-xxx.tgz

Older versions may not handle gzip files directly, so you may have to run
the following command:

gunzip -c splunk-4.3.x-xxx-Linux-xxx.tgz | tar xvf -

This will expand into the current directory. To expand into a specific directory,
you can usually add -C , depending on the version of tar, as follows:

tar -C /opt/ -xvzf splunk-4.3.x-xxx-Linux-xxx.tgz

Deploying using msiexec
On Windows, it is possible to deploy Splunk using msiexec . This makes it much
easier to automate deployment on a large number of machines.

To install silently, you can use the combination of AGREETOLICENSE and /quiet ,
as follows:

msiexec.exe /i splunk-xxx.msi AGREETOLICENSE=Yes /quiet

If you plan to use a deployment server, you can specify the following value:

msiexec.exe /i splunk-xxx.msi AGREETOLICENSE=Yes
DEPLOYMENT_SERVER="deployment_server_name:8089" /quiet