Helper Script for Splunk Enterprise

[rcastley]

Hi,

Firstly, I work for Splunk and I am developing a Helper Script to spin up a Splunk Enterprise LXC. The script will ask for the wget link from the downloads page on splunk.com. The reason for this is that a sign up is required for the EULA.

Once installed, users can convert to a perpetual free license after 60 days (limited to indexing 500Mb/day).

My question is, would this helper script be accepted by this wonderful project?

Many thanks,

• Robert

[tremor021]

We kind of moved away from using wget some time ago, in our big project overhaul. We now use curl exclusively to pull stuff.

Is this a dynamicaly created link or? https://download.splunk.com/products/splunk/releases/9.4.2/linux/splunk-9.4.2-e9664af3d956-linux-amd64.deb

[MickLesk]

But i see, "Enterprise"? Its an AGPL or another free license? We only support free tools or free to use tools

[rcastley]

ACK, understood, thank you for replying ... it was worth a shot!

Free Software. Splunk may make certain Software available for license without charge, and such Free Software may have limited features, functions, or other limitations of any kind. Subject to Customer’s compliance with this Agreement, Splunk grants to Customer a nonexclusive, worldwide, nontransferable, nonsublicensable license during the applicable Term to install and use the Free Software within the Licensed Capacity solely for Customer’s Internal Business Purposes. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Splunk does not provide maintenance and support (Section 7), warranty (Section 10), or indemnification (Section 13) with respect to Free Software.

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/legal/splunk-software-license-agreement-bah.html

[rcastley]

Coming back to this I see there is support for e.g. https://netboxlabs.com/products/netbox/ which also has a commercial offering.

Splunk does provide a free version - https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/admin-manual/9.4/configure-splunk-licenses/about-splunk-free

Based on that, would a helper script for Splunk be considered?

Many thanks

[tremor021]

The problem isnt if there is commercial or free versions. The problem is that:

1. We can't crawl packages from any webpage, so we can provide updates and reliable ways of getting the latest release.
2. We need to agree to EULA in order to reach a page that reveals full URL to the package.
3. Netbox has a free tier which is the one we install, so i don't see a reason why Splunk shouldn't be installable by us. If they can provide a way for us to get versions and paths to new releases, i see no problems.
4. As the current situation is that release URLs are fixed and we have no way of knowing how a full URL will look like, i see no way of making this a reliable script/install/update

[MickLesk]

If you get us an correct curl for Version crawling and dynamic URL (for newer Versions all the same Like Zabbix or other releases), we can take a look.

I cannot access the Release Page himself, only with static Versions, thats not our Goal, we Crawl every time the latest stable Release

Special Scripts as example:
Odoo
Zabbix
NxWitness