>> Hi, this is Natasha.
We're on Module 3 where we will be
installing Splunk on Windows using the GUI.
Using the command line is also an option and
instructions are available in
the supplemental materials for this course.
To get started, we're going to go to splunk.com,
and you'll need to log in,
in order to download Splunk.
Once you've logged in, you can go to Products,
Free Trials and Downloads,
and then scroll down on the page and
pick between Splunk free and Splunk enterprise.
Go ahead and click on Splunk free.
If you notice up here is directing us
to the Splunk enterprise download page.
When you download Splunk free,
you basically get a 60 day trial of Splunk enterprise.
That then changes to Splunk free after that time period.
In an earlier video,
we talked about some of the differences,
but there are limitations even for this trial version.
We'll scroll down here,
and I'm going to want to download this one.
But if you don't see the option you want,
there are other releases and you
may need to check your system requirements too.
Just go and click Download Now,
and we'll get a pop up here that we can
just save the installation package.
I went ahead and already did that to save us some time.
I've got it in my downloads folder here.
Just going to double-click that,
and we'll run the installation.
I'm going to click Accept License,
we'll go to Customize Options.
This is where it's going to put Splunk.
There are arguments for
removing this and keeping it as a shorter path.
But we're just going to leave as the default for now.
Then we install it as
the local system account
and come up with a username and password.
Go ahead and start the installation.
Installed. I'm going to go ahead and
click Finish here. Pretty simple.
Now, I mentioned how
the Splunk folder structure is really useful to learn.
When we installed this and went under Program Files,
Splunk, and if we want to,
we can go in and
check the server name that it's looking at.
The name of this host is being used as that.
We could go to local host port 8,000.
That's the default port used for it.
Or we could type in the name of this host for
that and we'll get to our Login Window.
I can use the account I just set
up and get logged
into our brand new installation of Splunk.
Something else I can do just to show you.
I have this browser,
this is on my computer,
not on the VM.
I'm just going to go to the same site.
I'm also able to log in.
You may need to play with
your firewall and network settings in
order to be able to talk between machines.
It's outside of the scope of this course.
But here we are,
here's our Splunk enterprise.
In our next video, we're going to be installing
a universal forwarder to get data
into this to start working with. Thanks for watching.