Follow these steps to configure the Splunk Forwarder to forward data and the Splunk indexer to receive data:
- On the server with the Universal Forwarder installed, open a command prompt if you are a Windows user or a terminal window if you are a Unix user.
- Change to the $SPLUNK_HOME/bin directory, where $SPLUNK_HOME is the directory in which the Splunk forwarder was installed.
- For Unix, the default installation directory will be /opt/splunkforwarder/bin. For Windows, it will be C:/Program Files/SplunkUniversalForwarder/bin.
If using Windows, omit ./ in front of the Splunk command in the upcoming steps.
- Start the Splunk forwarder, if not already started, using the following command:
./splunk start
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