Splunk installation checklist

Ok—we should be ready to set up all of our Splunk servers! Assuming you're configuring each Splunk component to perform its unique function manually, you'll want a checklist of the common configuration settings that all the servers receive, followed by the configuration items that are specific to each function (search head, indexer, and so on) to help ensure your configuration is correct and consistent. Let's start with a list of the components and their IP addresses, which you'll need to reference often during this process. 

For this example, we're building a distributed/clustered Splunk Enterprise dev/test environment with a three search head cluster, three indexer cluster, a cluster master and license master combined on one server, a deployer, and a deployment server—a total of nine nodes.