How to start Splunk after installing

Question

I search on this issue in many websites , however , if i found , i found tuto related to old versions :

In fact , Installing is done successfully :

 sudo dpkg -i splunk-6.3.1-linux-2.6-amd64.deb

However , i don't know how start it ?

Solution

The idea that the current version of Splunk create a user in your system named splunk with home directory is /opt/splunk

Thus :

1. Log-in as splunk :

sudo su - splunk;

2. Check the current directory after log-in :

  pwd;
  # must be : /opt/splunk , if so , proceed

3. Start the daemon :

   bin/splunk start
   # you will asked to agree the license =>  agree if you want to start daemon 

4. Waiting for the following message :

Waiting for web server at http://127.0.0.1:8000 to be available.. Done

The Splunk web interface is at http://localhost:8000