To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded and configurations done from Chapter 1, Play Time - Getting Data In. You should be familiar with navigating the Splunk user interface and using the Splunk search language. This recipe will use the open source command-line tool curl. There are other command-line tools available, such as wget. The curl tool is usually installed by default on most Mac and Linux systems, but can be downloaded for Windows systems as well.
For more information on curl, visit http://curl.haxx.se/.
