Splunk Installation on centOS minimal server

CentOS setup :


1. Download CentOS minimal from mirrors at
    http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso

2. Perform regular installation using iso file.

3. Setup network commands tools by executing : 

    yum install net-tool

4. Update all the packages using command  : 

    yum update

5. Download splunk rpm from below site. You may need to create account .

    https://www.splunk.com/en_us/download/splunk-enterprise.html

6. Install splunk by executing command : 

    rpm -ivh

7. This package will be installed at path /opt/splunk

8. Start splunk by executing below command  

    /opt/splunk/bin/splunk start

9. Accept the License and type y --> this is only for the first time.

10. Execute the below command to open port 8000 so that splunk can be accessed from outside
      firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent
      firewall-cmd --reload

11. Verify the setting :

       iptables-save | grep 80

      Output should match like : 

     -A IN_public_allow -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8000 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j ACCEPT

12. Try accessing splunk console URL from outside