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See "Create administrator credentials manually" later in this topic for the procedure. You must manually create the credentials and restart before you can log in. In this scenario, it does not prompt for administrator credentials. Then, it displays the question and why it has to quit, and quits. If you run $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk start -no-prompt, Splunk Enterprise proceeds with startup until it has to ask a question.There are two other start options: no-prompt and answer-yes. Start Splunk Enterprise without prompting, or by answering "yes" to any prompts See Create a secure administrator password in Securing Splunk for additional information about creating a secure password. The password must meet the requirements that the prompt displays. Type in the password that you want to assign to the user.You can press Enter to use the default username of admin. This is the user that you log into the universal forwarder with, not the user that you use to log into your machine or onto. Type in the name you want to use for the administrator user.Otherwise, you cannot log in.Ĭreate credentials for the administrator account.Ĭharacters do not appear on the screen when you type in credentials.
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Splunk software must create an administrator account during startup. This appears to be your first time running this version of Splunk. When you start the forwarder for the first time under most conditions, it prompts you to create credentials for the Splunk administrator user. The universal forwarder prompts for administrator credentials the first time you start it See Configure Splunk Enterprise to start at boot time for the procedure.
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To restart the universal forwarder, use the same CLI restart command that you use to restart a full Splunk Enterprise instance: Some configuration changes might require that you restart the forwarder. Also, if you make changes to the universal forwarder, you must start or restart it:
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After you install the universal forwarder, you must start it.
