Splunk deployments with Puppet

This Puppet module deploys Splunk instances on Windows and Linux in simple, distributed or (multisite) clustered topologies. It is used in production by organisations large and small, but can also be used to quickly validate solution architectures. For example on a 2016 MacBook Pro, setting up a multisite indexer cluster, a cluster master, a search head cluster, a search head deployer, LDAP authentication, etc, takes less than an hour.

Splunk demoed this module at the Splunk .conf2017 breakout session "Automate All the Things! Moving Faster With Puppet and Splunk" beginning at the 29:42 mark.

Project homepage is at https://github.com/jorritfolmer/puppet-splunk

Prerequisites

1. A Puppet master
2. A repository with splunk and splunkforwarder packages. See "Setting up a Splunk repository" if you need help setting it up for Red Hat, Debian or Windows environments

Installation

1. SSH to your Puppet master
2. puppet module install jorritfolmer-splunk
3. Create your Splunk topology, see below for examples.

Quick-start

Define a single standalone Splunk instance on Linux that you can use to index and search, for example with the trial license:

node 'splunk-server.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    httpport     => 8000,
    kvstoreport  => 8191,
    inputport    => 9997,
  }
}

(The equivalent in Hiera YAML format:)

---
classes:
  - splunk

splunk::httpport:         8000
splunk::kvstoreport:      8191
splunk::inputport:        9997

Or define a single standalone Splunk instance on Windows with:

node 'splunk-server.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    package_source => '//dc01/Company/splunk-6.6.1-aeae3fe0c5af-x64-release.msi',
    httpport       => 8000,
    kvstoreport    => 8191,
    inputport      => 9997,
  }
}

(The equivalent in Hiera YAML format:)

---
classes:
  - splunk

splunk::httpport:         8000
splunk::kvstoreport:      8191
splunk::inputport:        9997
splunk::package_source:   //dc01/Company/splunk-6.6.1-aeae3fe0c5af-x64-release.msi

See the other examples below for more elaborate topologies.

Usage

By default, this module uses the Puppet client SSL key (4096 bits) and client certificates. By reusing the existing Puppet Certificate Authority, we don't have to set up a parallel CA.

For quick testing in heterogeneous non-production environments you can revert to using the Splunk provides certs and CA with reuse_puppet_certs => false. Or you can point to your own key and certificates with sslcertpath and sslrootcapath if you are planning a zero-trust architecture.

The Splunk module doesn't manage the state of the splunk service, except to configure Splunk or Splunkforwarder at boot time. Have a look at the service parameter if you want to do more or less management of the Splunk service by this module.

Example 1:

Define a single standalone Splunk instance that you can use to index and search, for example with the trial license. This time use the Splunk provided non-production testing certificates instead of reusing the ones signed by the Puppet CA, for example for testing in heterogeneous environments with non-Puppetized Splunk forwarders.

node 'splunk-server.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    httpport           => 8000,
    kvstoreport        => 8191,
    inputport          => 9997,
    reuse_puppet_certs => false,
    sslcertpath        => 'server.pem',
    sslrootcapath      => 'cacert.pem',
    sslpassword        => 'password',
  }
}

To define a standalone Splunk instance running on Windows:

node 'splunk-server.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    package_source     => '//dc01/Company/splunk-6.6.1-aeae3fe0c5af-x64-release.msi',
    httpport           => 8000,
    kvstoreport        => 8191,
    inputport          => 9997,
    reuse_puppet_certs => false,
    sslcertpath        => 'server.pem',
    sslrootcapath      => 'cacert.pem',
    sslpassword        => 'password',
  }
}

Example 2a:

Extends the example above with a node that will run the Splunk universal forwarder. It uses the first server as Deployment Server (ds =>) where apps, inputs and outputs can be managed and deployed through Forwarder Management.

node 'splunk-server.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    httpport     => 8000,
    kvstoreport  => 8191,
    inputport    => 9997,
  }
}

node 'some-server.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    type => 'uf',
    ds   => 'splunk-server.internal.corp.example:8089',
  }
}

The equivalent for Windows environments:

node 'splunk-server.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    package_source => '//dc01/Company/splunk-6.6.1-aeae3fe0c5af-x64-release.msi',
    httpport       => 8000,
    kvstoreport    => 8191,
    inputport      => 9997,
  }
}

node 'some-server.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    package_source => '//dc01/Company/splunkforwarder-6.6.1-aeae3fe0c5af-x64-release.msi',
    type           => 'uf',
    ds             => 'splunk-server.internal.corp.example:8089',
  }
}

Example 2b:

Almost identical to example 2a, except with some SSL downgrading, not suitable for production. This will allow non-Puppetized Splunk clients to connect to the various services since the default Splunk config isn't compatible with SSL modern compability. Setting the deployment server to intermediate compatibility will allow these clients to make the initial connection, after which you can deploy a common_ssl_base config app to them with modern ssl compatibility. The manifest below will also use the Splunk provided non-production certificates, instead of the ones signed by the Puppet CA.

node 'splunk-server.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    httpport           => 8000,
    kvstoreport        => 8191,
    inputport          => 9997,
    sslcompatibility   => 'intermediate',
    reuse_puppet_certs => false,
    sslcertpath        => 'server.pem',
    sslrootcapath      => 'cacert.pem',
    sslpassword        => 'password',
  }
}

node 'some-server.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    type => 'uf',
    ds   => 'splunk-server.internal.corp.example:8089',
    reuse_puppet_certs => false,
    sslcertpath        => 'server.pem',
    sslrootcapath      => 'cacert.pem',
    sslpassword        => 'password',
  }
}

Example 3:

This example deploys one deployment/license server, one search head, and two indexers. Note that for the search head to add the indexer as its search peer, the indexer needs to be running before the search head manifest is executed. This means that you'll have to manage intra-node dependencies manually or through an orchestration tool like Terraform or Ansible.

node 'splunk-ds.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    admin        => {
      # Set the admin password to changemeagain
      hash       => '$6$MR9IJFF7RBnVA.k1$/30EBSzy0EJKZ94SjHFIUHjQjO3/P/4tx0JmWCp/En47MJceaXsevhBLE2w/ibjHlAUkD6k0U.PmY/noe9Jok0',
      fn         => 'Deployment Server Administrator',
      email      => 'changemeagain@example.com',
    },
    # Enable the web server
    httpport     => 8000,
    # Use the best-practice to forward all local events to the indexers
    tcpout       => [
      'splunk-idx1.internal.corp.example:9997', 
      'splunk-idx2.internal.corp.example:9997',
    ],
    service      => {
      ensure     => running,
      enable     => true,
    },
  }
}

node 'splunk-sh.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    admin        => {
      # A plaintext password needed to be able to add search peers,
      # so also make sure the indexer you're pointing to is running,
      # you can remove this if everything is up and running:
      pass       => 'changemeagain',
      hash       => '$6$MR9IJFF7RBnVA.k1$/30EBSzy0EJKZ94SjHFIUHjQjO3/P/4tx0JmWCp/En47MJceaXsevhBLE2w/ibjHlAUkD6k0U.PmY/noe9Jok0',
      fn         => 'Search head Administrator',
      email      => 'changemeagain@example.com',
    },
    httpport     => 8000,
    kvstoreport  => 8191,
    # Use a License Master and Deployment Server
    lm           => 'splunk-ds.internal.corp.example:8089',
    ds           => 'splunk-ds.internal.corp.example:8089',
    tcpout       => [ 
      'splunk-idx1.internal.corp.example:9997', 
      'splunk-idx2.internal.corp.example:9997', ],
    # Use these search peers
    searchpeers  => [ 
      'splunk-idx1.internal.corp.example:8089', 
      'splunk-idx2.internal.corp.example:8089', ],
    # splunk must be running to be able add search peers, 
    # you can remove this if everything is up and running:
    service      => {
      ensure     => running,
      enable     => true,
    },
  }
}

node 'splunk-idx1.internal.corp.example', 'splunk-idx2.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    admin        => {
      hash       => '$6$MR9IJFF7RBnVA.k1$/30EBSzy0EJKZ94SjHFIUHjQjO3/P/4tx0JmWCp/En47MJceaXsevhBLE2w/ibjHlAUkD6k0U.PmY/noe9Jok0',
      fn         => 'Indexer Administrator',
      email      => 'changemeagain@example.com',
    },
    inputport    => 9997,
    lm           => 'splunk-ds.internal.corp.example:8089',
    ds           => 'splunk-ds.internal.corp.example:8089',
    # splunk must be running for it to be added as search peer,
    # you can remove this if everything is up and running
    service      => {
      ensure     => running,
      enable     => true,
    }
  }
}

Example 4:

A Splunk indexer cluster consisting of one deployment/license/searchhead server, a cluster master, and three cluster peers. The cluster master also acts as license master.

node 'splunk-sh.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    admin        => {
      hash       => '$6$MR9IJFF7RBnVA.k1$/30EBSzy0EJKZ94SjHFIUHjQjO3/P/4tx0JmWCp/En47MJceaXsevhBLE2w/ibjHlAUkD6k0U.PmY/noe9Jok0',
      fn         => 'Search Head Administrator',
      email      => 'changemeagain@example.com',
    },
    httpport     => 8000,
    kvstoreport  => 8191,
    lm           => 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example:8089',
    tcpout       => [ 'splunk-idx1.internal.corp.example:9997', 'splunk-idx2.internal.corp.example:9997', ],
    clustering   => {
      mode       => 'searchhead',
      cm         => 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example:8089',
    }
  }
}

node 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    admin        => {
      hash       => '$6$MR9IJFF7RBnVA.k1$/30EBSzy0EJKZ94SjHFIUHjQjO3/P/4tx0JmWCp/En47MJceaXsevhBLE2w/ibjHlAUkD6k0U.PmY/noe9Jok0',
      fn         => 'Cluster Master Administrator',
      email      => 'changemeagain@example.com',
    },
    httpport     => 8000,
    tcpout       => [ 'splunk-idx1.internal.corp.example:9997', 'splunk-idx2.internal.corp.example:9997', ],
    clustering   => {
      mode               => 'master',
      replication_factor => 2,
      search_factor      => 2,
    }
  }
}

node 'splunk-idx1.internal.corp.example', 
     'splunk-idx2.internal.corp.example',
     'splunk-idx3.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    admin        => {
      hash       => '$6$MR9IJFF7RBnVA.k1$/30EBSzy0EJKZ94SjHFIUHjQjO3/P/4tx0JmWCp/En47MJceaXsevhBLE2w/ibjHlAUkD6k0U.PmY/noe9Jok0',
      fn         => 'Cluster Peer Administrator',
      email      => 'changemeagain@example.com',
    },
    inputport    => 9997,
    lm           => 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example:8089',
    clustering   => {
      mode       => 'slave',
      cm         => 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example:8089',
    }
  }
}

Example 5

This snippet enables Single Sign-On on the Search Head through Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) as an Identity provider. See the chapter "Splunk with ADFS" for more details and troubleshooting.

node 'splunk-sh.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    ...
    auth           => { 
      authtype     => 'SAML',
      saml_idptype => 'ADFS',
      saml_idpurl  => 'https://sso.internal.corp.example/adfs/ls',
    },
    ...
  }
}

To enable ADFS SAML authentication in a Search Head Cluster, add fqdn and entityid parameters:

node 'splunk-sh01.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    ...
    auth            => { 
      authtype      => 'SAML',
      saml_idptype  => 'ADFS',
      saml_idpurl   => 'https://sso.internal.corp.example/adfs/ls',
      saml_fqdn     => 'https://splunk.internal.corp.example:8000',
      sqml_entityid => 'splunk.internal.corp.example',
    },
    ...
  }
}

Example 6

This snippet enables LDAP authentication on a Search Head, e.g. with Active Directory. The example below also maps 2 groups in AD to Splunk admin, and 1 group to Splunk user.

node 'splunk-sh.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    ...
    auth           => { 
      authtype     => 'LDAP',
      ldap_host                 => 'dc01.internal.corp.example',
      ldap_binddn               => 'CN=Splunk Service Account,CN=Users,DC=corp,DC=example',
      ldap_binddnpassword       => 'changeme',
      ldap_sslenabled           => 0,
      ldap_userbasedn           => 'CN=Users,DC=corp,DC=example',
      ldap_groupbasedn          => 'CN=Users,DC=corp,DC=example;OU=Groups,DC=corp,DC=example',
    },
    rolemap     => {
      'admin'   => 'Splunk Admins;Domain Admins',
      'user'    => 'Splunk Users',
    },
    ...
  }
}

Example 7

Splunk search head clustering (SHC) not only requires configuration management, but also some orchestration to get it up and running.

Since the SH Deployer also has an active role in configuration management, you will have to take some extra steps in the right order to prevent Puppet and SH deployer from interferring with each other.

node 'splunk-sh1.internal.corp.example',
     'splunk-sh2.internal.corp.example', 
     'splunk-sh3.internal.corp.example'  {
  class { 'splunk':
    ...
    shclustering   => {
      mode         => 'searchhead',
      shd          => 'splunk-shd.internal.corp.example:8089',
      pass4symmkey => 'SHCl33tsecret',
      label        => 'My First SHC',
    },
     ...
  }
}

node 'splunk-shd.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    ...
    shclustering   => {
      mode         => 'deployer',
      pass4symmkey => 'SHCl33tsecret',
    },
     ...
  }
}

Steps:

1. Do a puppet run on the SH deployer and SH cluster nodes, but don't start Splunk yet.
2. Copy the $SPLUNKHOME/etc/apps/puppet* directories created by Puppet from one of the Search Head Cluster nodes to etc/shcluster/apps/ on the Search Head Deployer
3. Disable Puppet on the Search Head Cluster nodes to prevent Puppet from interfering with the configuration bundle pushes from the Search Head Deployer.
4. Start the SH deployer and the SH cluster nodes
5. Do an apply shcluster-bundle on the Search Head Deployer
6. Perform a `splunk bootstrap shcluster-captain -servers_list "https://splunk-sh1.internal.corp.example:8089,https://splunk-sh2.internal.corp.example:8089,https://splunk-sh1.internal.corp.example:8089" -auth admin:changemeagain

Example 8

Configure a multisite cluster with 2 sites with 1 indexer each. Site 1 hosts splunk-cm and splunk-idx1. Site 2 hosts splunk-idx2.

node 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    admin        => {
      hash       => '$6$MR9IJFF7RBnVA.k1$/30EBSzy0EJKZ94SjHFIUHjQjO3/P/4tx0JmWCp/En47MJceaXsevhBLE2w/ibjHlAUkD6k0U.PmY/noe9Jok0',
      fn         => 'Cluster Master Administrator',
      email      => 'changemeagain@example.com',
    },
    httpport     => 8000,
    tcpout       => [ 'splunk-idx1.internal.corp.example:9997', 'splunk-idx2.internal.corp.example:9997', ],
    clustering   => {
      mode               => 'master',
      replication_factor => 2,
      search_factor      => 2,
      thissite           => 'site1',
      available_sites    => 'site1,site2',
      site_replication_factor => 'origin:1, total:2',
      site_search_factor => 'origin:1, total:2',
    }
  }
}

node 'splunk-idx1.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    admin        => {
      hash       => '$6$MR9IJFF7RBnVA.k1$/30EBSzy0EJKZ94SjHFIUHjQjO3/P/4tx0JmWCp/En47MJceaXsevhBLE2w/ibjHlAUkD6k0U.PmY/noe9Jok0',
      fn         => 'Cluster Peer Administrator',
      email      => 'changemeagain@example.com',
    },
    inputport    => 9997,
    lm           => 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example:8089',
    clustering   => {
      thissite   => 'site1',
      mode       => 'slave',
      cm         => 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example:8089',
    }
  }
}

node 'splunk-idx2.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    admin        => {
      hash       => '$6$MR9IJFF7RBnVA.k1$/30EBSzy0EJKZ94SjHFIUHjQjO3/P/4tx0JmWCp/En47MJceaXsevhBLE2w/ibjHlAUkD6k0U.PmY/noe9Jok0',
      fn         => 'Cluster Peer Administrator',
      email      => 'changemeagain@example.com',
    },
    inputport    => 9997,
    lm           => 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example:8089',
    clustering   => {
      thissite   => 'site2',
      mode       => 'slave',
      cm         => 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example:8089',
    }
  }
}

Example 9

Configure an index cluster with indexer discovery

node 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    admin        => {
      hash       => '$6$MR9IJFF7RBnVA.k1$/30EBSzy0EJKZ94SjHFIUHjQjO3/P/4tx0JmWCp/En47MJceaXsevhBLE2w/ibjHlAUkD6k0U.PmY/noe9Jok0',
      fn         => 'Cluster Master Administrator',
      email      => 'changemeagain@example.com',
    },
    httpport     => 8000,
    tcpout       => 'indexer_discovery',
    clustering   => {
      mode               => 'master',
      replication_factor => 2,
      search_factor      => 2,
      indexer_discovery  => true,
    }
  }
}

node 'splunk-idx1.internal.corp.example','splunk-idx2.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    admin        => {
      hash       => '$6$MR9IJFF7RBnVA.k1$/30EBSzy0EJKZ94SjHFIUHjQjO3/P/4tx0JmWCp/En47MJceaXsevhBLE2w/ibjHlAUkD6k0U.PmY/noe9Jok0',
      fn         => 'Cluster Peer Administrator',
      email      => 'changemeagain@example.com',
    },
    inputport    => 9997,
    lm           => 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example:8089',
    clustering   => {
      mode       => 'slave',
      cm         => 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example:8089',
    }
  }
}

node 'some-server.internal.corp.example' {
  class { 'splunk':
    type       => 'uf',
    tcpout     => 'indexer_discovery',
    clustering => {
      cm       => 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example:8089',
    }
  }
}

Puppet Enterprise

If you're using the Puppet Enterprise web interface, type "splunk" at the Add new class input and configure the parameters like httpport, inputport etc like in the screenshot below:

Structured parameters like admin, clustering, auth need to be specified in valid JSON. See the "Tips for specifying parameter and variable values" over at Puppet Enterprise docs: https://puppet.com/docs/pe/2018.1/managing_nodes/grouping_and_classifying_nodes.html#set-node-group-variables.

One caveat: you cannot specify the admin hash in JSON due to the dollar signs in the SHA512 hash. Even though the PE docs mention you should escape $ to prevent variable interpolation, this doesn't seem to work for values in JSON.

If for one reason or another the PE web gui says "Converted to string" while you're entering JSON, you should assume your structured parameter to not be interpreted incorrectly.

Splunk with ADFS

Setup

1. Add a new Relying Party Trust in AD FS Management Console, by importing the XML from https://splunk-sh.internal.corp.example/saml/spmetadata. Since this metadata is kept behind a Splunk login, you'll have to:

   • first browse to https://splunk-sh.internal.corp.example/account/login?loginType=Splunk
   • then browse to https://splunk-sh.internal.corp.example/saml/spmetadata, and copy/paste the SAML metadata XML to the Windows server.
   • import the SAML metadata XML from the relying party (Splunk) from a file

2. Add a new claim rule to map Active Directory attributes to new claims

   

3. Disable EncryptClaims on the ADFS side: Splunk only supports signed SAML responses: Set-ADFSRelyingPartyTrust -TargetIdentifier splunk-sh1.internal.corp.example -EncryptClaims $False

4. Disable SigningCertificateRevocationCheck on the ADFS side if you're using your own self signed certificates without CRL: Set-ADFSRelyingPartyTrust -TargetIdentifier splunk-sh1.internal.corp.example -SigningCertificateRevocationCheck none

You can use the SAML tracer Firefox plugin to see what gets posted to Splunk via ADFS after a succesful authentication. The relevant part should look something like this:

        ...
        <Subject>
            <NameID>jfolmer@testlab.example</NameID>
            <SubjectConfirmation Method="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:cm:bearer">
                <SubjectConfirmationData InResponseTo="host15.testlab.example.12.AF9F4C1A-EAEA-4EF5-A501-E57AB33D7776"
                                         NotOnOrAfter="2016-11-04T21:23:34.597Z"
                                         Recipient="https://host15.testlab.example:8000/saml/acs"
                                         />
            </SubjectConfirmation>
        </Subject>
        <Conditions NotBefore="2016-11-04T21:18:34.581Z"
                    NotOnOrAfter="2016-11-04T22:18:34.581Z"
                    >
            <AudienceRestriction>
                <Audience>host15.testlab.example</Audience>
            </AudienceRestriction>
        </Conditions>
        <AttributeStatement>
            <Attribute Name="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name">
                <AttributeValue>Jorrit Folmer</AttributeValue>
            </Attribute>
            <Attribute Name="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress">
                <AttributeValue>jfolmer@testlab.example</AttributeValue>
            </Attribute>
            <Attribute Name="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/role">
                <AttributeValue>Domain Users</AttributeValue>
                <AttributeValue>Splunk Admins</AttributeValue>
            </Attribute>
        </AttributeStatement>
        ...

ADFS troubleshooting

Steps:

1. Get the ADFS relaying party trust settings from the ADFS server, e.g. through powershell: Get-AdfsRelyingPartyTrust -Identifier host11.testlab.example. Configuration settings to check:
   • SigningCertificateRevocationCheck: should be None for self-signed certs
   • EncryptClaims: should be $false because Splunk only supports signed claims
   • Identifier: should match the entityId in Splunk's authentication.conf
   • SignedSamlRequestsRequired: should be $true if you don't want your samlrequests to be man-in-the-middled
   • SignatureAlgorithm: should match the one in Splunk's authentication.conf, defaults to SHA-1, on ADFS defaults to SHA-256
2. Check the ADFS/Admin channel in the Windows Event Log for errors.

The Splunk provided SPMetadata.xml only covers some parameters for a Relaying Party Trust. This means there is a possibility for settings between Splunk and ADFS to diverge. For example regarding hashing with SHA-1 or SHA-256, CRL checking, Claim encryption etc.

Errors you may encounter with Splunk and ASFS 3.0 on Server 2012R2 or ADFS 4.0 on Server 2016:

Setting up a Splunk repository

Red Hat/CentOS (YUM)

If you don't already have a local repository server, the quickest way is to install Apache on the Puppet master and have this serve the yum repository.

1. yum install httpd
2. yum install createrepo
3. mkdir /var/www/html/splunk
4. cd /var/www/html/splunk
5. download splunk-x.y.x.rpm
6. download splunk-forwarder-x.y.x.rpm
7. createrepo .
8. make sure Apache allows directory index listing
9. surf to http://your.repo.server.example/splunk and check if you get a directory listing

Then add something like this to every node definition in site.pp, and require it from the splunk class so it it evaluated before the splunk class.

yumrepo { "splunk":
  baseurl => "http://your.repo.server.example/splunk",
  descr => "Splunk repo",
  enabled => 1,
  gpgcheck => 0
}

Debian/Ubuntu (APT)

If you don't already have a local repository server, the quickest way is to install Apache on the Puppet master and have this serve the APT repository.

1. apt-get install apache2
2. apt-get install dpkg-dev
3. mkdir /var/www/html/splunk
4. cd /var/www/html/splunk
5. download splunk-x.y.x.deb
6. download splunk-forwarder-x.y.x.deb
7. dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null |gzip -c > Packages.gz
8. make sure Apache allows directory index listing
9. surf to http://your.rhel-repo.server.example/splunk and check if you get a directory listing

Then add something like this to every node definition in site.pp, and make sure to require these files from the splunk class so they are evaluated before the splunk class. Because the APT repository above isn't signed, puppet won't be able to install splunk or splunkforwarder, except when setting APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated somewhere in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/. You may have to run apt-get update before the Splunk repository is available in apt-get.

file { "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99allowunsigned":
  ensure => present,
  content => "APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true";\n",
}
file { "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/splunk.list":
  ensure => present,
  content => "deb http://your.apt-repo.server.example/splunk ./\n",
}

Windows CIFS share (MSI)

For Windows installations just put the .msi Splunk installation files for Windows on a share that is accessible from all your Windows servers.

1. create a share that can be accessed by all your Windows servers
2. download the relevant Splunk .msi files from the Splunk website into this share
3. specify package_source and point to one of these .msi files

Parameters

admin

Optional. Used to create a local admin user with predefined hash, full name and email This is a hash with 3 members:

• hash (SHA512 hash of the admin password. To generate the hash use one of:
  • grub-crypt --sha-512 (RHEL/CENTOS)
  • mkpasswd -m sha-512 (Debian)
  • python -c 'import crypt,getpass; print(crypt.crypt(getpass.getpass(), crypt.mksalt(crypt.METHOD_SHA512)))'
• pass (Plaintext password, only used for search heads to add search peers in distributed search)
• fn (Full name)
• email (Email address)

auth

Optional. Used to configure Splunk authentication. Currently supports 'Splunk' (default), 'SAML' and 'LDAP'. This is a hash with the following members:

• authtype (can be one of Splunk,LDAP,SAML)
• saml_idptype (specifies the SAML identity provider type to use, currently only supports ADFS)
• saml_idpurl (specifies the base url for the identity provider, for ADFS IdP's this will be something like https://sso.corp.example/adfs/ls )
• saml_signauthnrequest (sign outgoing SAML requests to ADFS: defaults to true)
• saml_signedassertion (expect assertions from ADFS to be signed: defaults to true)
• saml_signaturealgorithm (specifies the signature algorithm to hash requests to ADFS with, and support responses from ADFS.)
• saml_entityid (defaults to $fqdn, override in search head clustering setups to make every search head use the same Relaying Party Trust in ADFS)
• saml_fqdn (not present by default, override in search head clustering setups to have ADFS redirect to this URL which should normally be the URL handled by a load balancer. If you omit this, ADFS will redirect to the individual search head that make de SAML request which isn't what you want in SHC)
• ldap_host
• ldap_port: optional if you use a non-standard port
• ldap_binddn
• ldap_binddnpassword
• ldap_userbasedn
• ldap_groupbasedn
• ldap_sslenabled: default
• ldap_usernameattribute
• ldap_groupmemberattribute
• ldap_groupnameattribute
• ldap_realnameattribute
• ldap_nestedgroups: optional, set to 1 if you want Splunk to expand nested groups

clustering

Optional. Used to configure Splunk indexer clustering. This is a hash with 6 members:

• mode (can be one of master,searchhead,slave, or forwarder)
• replication_factor
• search_factor
• cm (points to cluster master in case of searchhead,slave, or forwarder in case of indexer discovery)
• indexer_discovery (enables indexer discovery on the master node)
• forwarder_site_failover (Configures sites that fowarders are allowed to fail over to. site1:site allows fowarders in site1 to fail over to indexers in site2 if the local indexers are unavailable.)

For multisite indexer clustering:

• thissite (assigns this node to a site, value can be site1..site63. site is a reserved word in Puppet 4.x hence the choice for thissite)

For cluster masters of multisite indexer clusters:

• available_sites (e.g. 'site1,site2')
• site_replication_factor (e.g. 'origin:1, total:2')
• site_search_factor (e.g. 'origin:1, total:2')

ds

Optional. Used to point to a Splunk deployment server

ds_intermediate

Optional. Used to configure the deployment server as a deploymentclient. This is useful if you want to retain one central deployment server instead of multiple, for example one for each DMZ. Defaults to undef.

httpport

Optional. When omitted, it will not start Splunk web. Set httpport => 8000 if you do want to have Splunk web available.

inputport

Optional. When omitted, it will not start an Splunk2Splunk listener. Set kvstoreport => 9997 if you do want to use this instance as an indexer.

kvstoreport

Optional. When omitted, it will not start Mongodb. Set kvstoreport => 8191 if you do want to have KVstore available.

lm

Optional. Used to point to a Splunk license manager.

maxbackupindex

Optional. Specifies the number of rotated log files in $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk to keep around. Defaults to 1.

maxfilesize

Optional. Specifies the max file size of log files in $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk. Defaults to 10MB.

maxKBps

Optional. Specifies the max throughput rate for outgoing data.

mgmthostport

Optional. When omitted, Splunk defaults apply and Splunk will use the default 8089 port. Set mgmthostport => '127.0.0.1:9991' if you want to move the 8089 port to 9991 Set `mgmthostport => 'disable' if you want to disable the Splunk management port, for example on Universal Forwarders

minfreespace

Optional. Used to specify the minimum amount of freespace in kb before Splunk stops indexing data.

package_source

Optional.

• For Windows: Use this to point to the .msi installation file. This can be a UNC path like \DC01\Company\splunkforwarder-6.6.1-aeae3fe0c5af-x64-release.msi
• For Linux: Use this to point to the URL of a Splunk RPM file. WARNING: this will cause the entire RPM file to be downloaded at every Puppet run by the package provider, even though it is already installed. Create your own local repository if you don't want this.

phonehomeintervalinsec

Optional. Used to configure the phonehomeinterval of the deploymentclient. Defaults to undef.

pool_suggestion

Optional. Used to perform license pool management at the indexers instead of at the licence master.

repositorylocation

Optional. Used to configure the location on the deployment client where the incoming apps from the deployment server are stored. Use master-apps or shcluster/apps if you want to use the deployment server to also deploy to intermediate locations on the cluster master or search head deployer.

reuse_puppet_certs

Optional. By default the certificates signed by the Puppet CA will be reused. However if you want to do some quick testing with non-Puppetized nodes, set this to false, and make sure to point sslcertpath => 'server.pem' and sslrootcapath => 'cacert.pem' to the default Splunk testing certs.

• true (default)
• false

reuse_puppet_certs_for_web

Optional. By default the certificates signed by the SplunkCommonCA will be used to secure the Splunkweb interface at 8000/tcp If you want to use the one signed by the Puppet CA, set this option to true.

• false (default)
• true

requireclientcert

Optional. Used on a server to require clients to present an SSL certificate. Can be an array with:

• inputs: require clients to present a certificate when sending data to Splunk
• splunkd: require deployment clients and search peers to present a certificate when

For example require both splunkd and inputs connections to present a certificate:

requireclientcert => ['splunkd','inputs'],

Or only require forwarders to present a certificate when sending data;

requireclientcert => 'inputs',

rolemap

Optional. Specifies the role mapping for SAML and LDAP Defaults to:

{ 
  'admin' => 'Domain Admins', 
  'power' => 'Power Users', 
  'user'  => 'Domain Users',
}

service

Optional. Used to manage the running and startup state of the Splunk/Splunkforwarder service. This is a hash with 3 members:

• ensure (not enabled by default)
• enable (defaults to true)
• managed (default to undef): set this to false if you don't want the module to anything with the Splunk service at all. For example if you want to use systemd unit files instead of the SysV scripts provided by Splunk.

searchpeers

Optional. Used to add a search peer to the current Splunk instance.

This parameter requires the admin password to be present in plain text as the 'pass' member of the auth parameter. Best practice is to remove this plaintext and searchpeer parameter after adding all the required search peers.

You can use this to:

• add one or more indexers to a search head
• add a Splunk instance so the Monitoring Console can monitor it, for example if you're montoring a clustered Splunk deloyment from the cluster master. In this case the search head isn't automatically present in the MC overview, so you have to add the search head as a search peer.

After adding the search peeer, an empty hostname:8090.done file in created in$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/distServerKeys, so the Puppet module knows not to run the add search peer command again and again. Remove this file if you want to re-add the same search peer.

secret

Optional. Specifies the contents for the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/splunk.secret file. This can be helpful when distributing prehashed passwords across multiple Splunk instances.

Example:

secret => 'kGzHMGUe7GH0ZlOOIMVKkuEpDx1i1PKgq3E4p2ibmXuCKqJAKCENvY5a4QijxyrYt5Spt4T0.Qda5az6CDBvoTiYjMKsvz/p/ey/eLWOC6GQIEzARBUDasl84v9PIo6TA4AF4SxdygKGjbBekm9kV4UL2uMLnUGpQ5d.yIqBxqpHy8lgQhCTEIwQPxKRu9UMnBmEjnAmakn7Rmd3kMKq/.fnJdMgHhIZIK1ZcT6jm2vllL3sE42DBHy1DoRnYK'

shclustering

Optional. Used to configure Splunk search head clustering. This is a hash with 3 members:

• mode (can be one of searchhead,deployer)
• replication_factor
• shd (points to search head deployer, but see caveat in Example 7)

sslcompatibility

Optional. Used to configure the SSL compatibility level as defined by Mozilla Labs:

• modern (default)
• intermediate
• old

Also see the Compatibility section below.

splunk_os_user

Optional. Run the Splunk instance as this user. Defaults to splunk

splunk_bindip

Optional. Bind to this specific IP instead of 0.0.0.0

splunk_db

Optional. Used to set the location where Splunk stores its indexes. Unsupported on Windows instances.

For 3.x releases of Puppet-Splunk this will only change the SPLUNK_DB variable in etc/splunk-launch.conf if set. If unset, it will not remove the setting to prevent surprises when it has been previously set manually.

For 4.x future releases this may change.

sslcertpath

Optional. Can be together with reuse_puppet_certs => false to point to either your own certificates, or to the default Splunk provided testing certficates.

Note that the path is relative to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/

sslrootcapath

Optional. Can be together with reuse_puppet_certs => false to point to either your own CA certificates, or to the default Splunk provided testing CA certficates.

Note that the path is relative to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/

sslpassword

Optional. Specify the password for the RSA key. Can be plaintext or a Splunk hash. For a Splunk hash you should also specify the Splunk secret.

sslverifyservercert

Optional. Used on a client to require servers to present an SSL certificate from the same CA as the client. Can be an array with:

• outputs: require servers to present a certificate when sending data to Splunk
• splunkd: require deployment servers and search peers to present a certificate from the same CA

For example require both splunkd and outputs connections to present a certificate from the same CA:

sslverifyservercert => ['splunkd','outputs'],

Or only require Splunk indexers to present a certificate with the same CA when sending data;

sslverifyservercert => 'outputs',

type

Optional. When omitted it installs the Splunk server type. Use type => "uf" if you want to have a Splunk Universal Forwarder.

tcpout

Optional. When omitted, it will not forward events to a Splunk indexer.

Set tcpout => 'splunk-idx1.internal.corp.example:9997' if you do want to forward events to a Splunk indexer.

Set `tcpout => 'indexer_discovery' if you want to use indexer discovery instead of specifying indexers manually. Requires specifying a cluster master through:

  clustering => {
     cm      => 'splunk-cm.internal.corp.example:8089'
  }

use_ack

Optional. Used to request indexer acknowlegement when sending data. Defaults to false.

version

Optional. Specify the Splunk version to use. For example to install the 6.2.2 version: verion => '6.2.2-255606'.

Compatibility

Set sslcompatibility in these cases:

• If you have older 6.0, 6.1, 6,2 or 6.3 releases that connect to Splunk 6.6 (see SPL-141961, SPL-141964)
• If you have older 6.0, 6,1 releases that connect to Splunk 6.2, 6,3, 6,4 or 6,5
• If you have 6.2, 6,3, 6.4 or 6.5 releases with default Splunk ssl settings that connect to Splunk managed by this module

Principles

Development of this module is done with the following principles in mind:

1. Technical Management Puppet is used to configure the technical infrastructure of a Splunk deployment. It tries to keep away from Splunk functional administration as much as possible. For example, deploying Splunk apps to forwarders is best left to Splunk's multi-platform deployment server.
2. Power to the Splunkers. A Splunk installation used for security monitoring should typically not be administered by the same IT or IT-infra teams it's supposed to be monitoring. This Puppet module should smooth the path towards implementing segregation of duties between administrators and watch(wo)men (ISO 27002 12.4.3 or BIR 10.10.3).
3. Supports any topology. Single server? Redundant multisite clustering? Heavy forwarder in a DMZ?
4. Secure by default.

• Splunk runs as user splunk instead of root.
• No services are listening by default except the bare minimum (8089/tcp)
• TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 are enabled by default
• Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) using Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH)
• Ciphers are set to modern compatibility
• Admin password can be set using its SHA512 hash in the Puppet manifests instead of plain-text.

Changelog

Moved to CHANGELOG.md

Test coverage

Moved to TEST_COVERAGE.md

Roadmap

• Managed service account for Windows installations
• Convert examples to patterns or building blocks

Out-of-scope

• Search head load-balancing
• Search head pooling
• Managing apps or inputs on Splunkforwarders, see principle 1.

Contributers

These people haves contributed pull requests, issues, ideas or otherwise spent time improving this module:

• Alexander M (Rathios)
• Chris Bowles (cbowlesUT)
• Dimitri Tischenko (timidri)
• dkangel37
• Dustin Wheeler (mdwheele)
• FlorinTar
• Jason Spencer (jespencer)
• Joachim la Poutré (sickbock)
• jsushetski
• Michael Fyffe (TraGicCode)
• Miro (mirogta)
• Nate McCurdy (natemccurdy)
• negast
• RampentPotato
• Ryan (vidkun)
• Steve Myers (stmyers)
• TheChuckMo

License

Copyright (c) 2016-2018 Jorrit Folmer

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Support

This is an open source project without warranty of any kind. No support is provided. However, a public repository and issue tracker are available at https://github.com/jorritfolmer/puppet-splunk

3.13.2

• Set hiera merge behaviour for splunk::auth

3.13.1

• Set hiera merge behaviour for splunk::admin
• Update testing to verify Puppet 6.x compatibility

3.13.0

• Add service[managed] option to disable managing of the Splunk service
• Add ldap_port option

3.12.4

• Fix missing $ in $package_source variable

3.12.3

• Fix for splunk_os_user not being honored if set

3.12.2

• Fixed multisite examples
• Updated docs: Puppet Enterprise JSON values in docs

3.12.1

• Updated docs: link to Splunk demo of this module on conf2017

3.12.0

• Added option to also use Puppet certs for Splunkweb

3.11.0

• Added pool_suggestion parameter

3.10.2

• Improved searchpeer documentation and error handling

3.10.1

• Added SAML parameters to configure Search Head Clustering with ADFS
• Removed attribute query from ADFS config

3.10.0

• Added ADFS troubleshooting
• Changed defaults to require signing outgoing requests, and receiving signed responses

3.9.3

• Fixed authentication.conf template spacing issue causing restart loopt when notifying an Exec

3.9.2

• Added section to configure Splunk class in Puppet Enterprise web interface
• Removed documentation reference to unimplemented splunk_home parameter
• Fixed server.conf template spacing issue causing restart loops when notifying an Exec

3.9.1

• Fixed issue where splunk first time run would happen before install

3.9.0

• Add setting to control maxKBps in limits.conf
• Add setting to control sslpassword plaintext or hashed
• Add setting to control sslverifyservercert for outputs and splunkd

3.8.0

• Add settings to control maxfilesize and rotation in log-local.cfg

3.7.0

• Add setting to control splunk.secret. (Issue #18)
• Add setting to control mgmtHostPort or disable the default Splunk management port (8089/tcp) entirely, e.g. on Universal Forwarders
• Add setting to control SPLUNK_DB. (Issue #5)
• Add additional LDAP authentication fields. (Issue #8)

3.6.0

• Add settings to allow forwarders to fail over between indexers in multiple sites.

3.5.0

• Added the optional 'nestedGroups' setting for LDAP authentication.

3.4.3

• Added explicit error when using indexer_discovery without setting cm

3.4.2

• Fixed service status confusion (Issue #16)

3.4.1

• Added package_source for Linux in repository-less environments
• Perform first-time-run after an upgrade
• Fix boot-start for older Splunk UF versions
• Add ssl3 to intermediate_compatibility due to SPL-141961 and SPL-141964

3.4.0

• Added indexer discovery

3.3.0

• Added requireclientcert
• Successfully verified compatibility with Puppet 5.0.0 (Ruby 2.4) through Travis

3.2.0

• Added support for Windows

3.1.3

• Fixed typo in ds_intermediate parameter (Issue #11)
• Added forgotten ecdhcurvename_intermediate parameter (Issue #11)
• Removed obsolete use_certs parameter (Issue #11)
• Added TEST_COVERAGE.md

3.1.2

• Fixed forgotten repositorylocation (issue #9)
• Added instructions to generate SHA512 password hashes (Issue #10)
• Updated arrows to follow Puppet style guide

3.1.1

• Fixed typo in Puppet SSL directory pathname

3.1.0

• Added minfreespace parameter
• Fixed metadata.json
• Fixed hardcoded ecdhcurve

3.0.2

• Changed curve to secp384r1 to support Chrome
• Added AES256-GCM-SHA384 to cipherlist because mongod doesn't support curves and fails client helo's from Splunk. These failures appeared with Splunk 6.5.x

3.0.1

• Fixed failing ca.crt reuse from open-source Puppet

3.0.0

• Added support for multisite indexer clustering
• Added replication_port parameter to configure index cluster replication port.
• Moved useACK paramter to use_ack due to Puppet stricter language check

2.1.2

• Improved SAML support and updated settings for Splunk 6.4 and Splunk 6.5

2.1.1

• Improved search head clustering (SHC) support: Puppet now only places the initial SHC node configuration, and won't touch it afterwards. This allows the SH deployer to take over after initial configuration. A staging SHC instance is no longer necessary.
• Improved search head clustering (SHC) support: splunk init shcluster is no longer necessary, only splunk bootstrap shcluster-captain

2.1.0

• Added search head clustering (SHC) support, although only useful for staging purposes due to the overruling nature of the search head deployer (SHD)
• Added support to reuse Puppet certs from /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl whenever commercial Puppet is used.

2.0.0

• Moved Splunk configuration out of etc/system/local to individual Splunk config apps
• Add LDAP authentication support

1.0.9

• Added phonehomeintervalinsec parameter to configure phoneHomeIntervalInSec for the deploymentclient

1.0.8

• Improved adding search peers
• Added class containment, to properly support require => from other resources or classes. This add a dependency on puppetlabs-stdlib.

1.0.7

• Added rpsec tests
• Added github->travis-ci integration
• Fixed issues for Puppet 2.7

1.0.6

• Add SAML authentication support through ADFS as IdP

1.0.5

• Specify IP to bind to

1.0.4

• Optionally specify Splunk version to install
• Merged PR #1 from @timidri

1.0.3

• Added ds_intermediate parameter to create a deployment server that can deploy apps from an another upstream deployment server.

1.0.2

• Added use_ack parameter to manage indexer acknowledgement
• Updated README with Debian / Ubuntu prerequisites.

1.0.1

• Added service parameter to manage start and running state of the Splunk or Splunkforwarder service.

1.0.0

Initial release:

• License master
• Splunk web
• Standalone search head
• KVstore
• Standalone indexer
• Deployment server
• Deployment client
• Distributed search
• Forwarding with load-balancing
• Data input with SSL
• Index clustering: cluster master
• Index clustering: cluster peer
• Index clustering: search head