Previously.
We are downloaded Splunk on our local machine and also on the cloud machine where we need to install
Splunk.
Now let's see how we can download Universal for order for downloading Universal for order.
You can either directly click on the link in the document or Google Splunk Universal Forwarder.
The first link that pops up should be.
You are link to download Splunk universal forwarder.
Now, if you click on the link that is provided in the document, it will take you to this page.
If you are not registered, go ahead and register.
If you are already registered, click on login if you already logged in.
Refresh the page.
So since I have already logged in, I'll just refresh the page.
I'll be able to see the link to download the universal forwarder.
As of today, we have 66.2, and that is the latest version of Splunk available at the time of this
tutorial.
We have lots of varieties when we compare it to Splunk Enterprise package because Splunk Enterprise
package, it had Linux version.
It had Solaris, it had a Windows.
And also probably a I believe.
No, it was Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS.
It had just the four flavors.
But when you see Universal forward, it has three more because the remote data source can be of different
source or many sources.
It can be a Windows machine, it can be a Linux machine, it can be Solaris, Mac, or any other flavor
of Linux, even HP or IBM servers.
There are a lot, many variants.
And since Splunk, Universal Forward is a lightweight package, it is almost one third of the package
that Splunk Enterprise packages.
It was close to 220 megabytes, but this is like 54 MP.
So it is like much lightweight and it consumes less process when you compare it to RAM and CPU usage
of any other processors.
It is very lightweight and it sits without affecting any performance on the remote machines.
We can download windows.
As part of this tutorial will be installing Windows client also to fetch data from the Windows machine.
Again, it has a command line option where you can click and download this.
Or.
You can wait for the this to finish, then copy this into all the windows machines wherever you would
like to install your universal folder.