Install and configure Windows and applications

  1. On a reference computer, install and configure Windows the way that you want, including installing Windows features, service packs, and other components.
  2. Install and configure necessary applications, taking into account Splunk's system and hardware capacity requirements.
  3. Install and configure the universal forwarder from the command line. You must supply at least the LAUNCHSPLUNK=0 command line flag when you perform the installation.
  4. Proceed through the graphical portion of the install, selecting the inputs, deployment servers, and/or forwarder destinations you want.
  5. After the installation has completed, open a command prompt or PowerShell window.