Page Comparison

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• Standalone - the PowerConnect agent runs as a standalone piece of software. This requires a host (two for HA) running on-premises or in a cloud provider as infrastructure as a service.

• Splunk Cloud - the PowerConnect agent runs as a modular input inside Splunk Cloud. It is installed via the Splunk Cloud UI and requires no additional infrastructure

• Splunk on-premises - the PowerConnect agent runs as a modular input inside a Splunk Heavy Forwarder. It can leverage an existing Splunk HF assuming it has sufficient head room or can be installed on a dedicated instance

Deployment Options

Standalone Installation

Hardware Requirements

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• Login to your Splunk Cloud environment as a user with administrator privileges

• On the menu on the left click Find More Apps
  

  

• In the Search box under Browse More Apps enter “PowerConnect” and press Enter
  

  

• In the results go to SAP PowerConnect Cloud for Splunk and click Install
  

  

• Enter your Splunkbase credentials, accept the terms and conditions and click Login and Install
  

  

• Once the installation has completed click Done
  

  

• Return to the Launcher by clicking on the Splunk Cloud icon in the top left and you should see the PowerConnect Cloud app has been installed
  

  

• Click on the PowerConnect Cloud for Splunk app to open its Home page then click the Configuration tab and enter your license key

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• Click Apply License

• The PowerConnect Cloud Modular Input is now ready for Inputs to be configured

Splunk On-Premises Installation

Installation Steps

• Login to the Splunk Web UI of the Splunk Heavy Forwarder as an admin user

• In the Launcher app click the Manage Apps icon on the side menu
  

  

• Click the Install app from file button at the top right of the screen

  

• Click the Choose file button and select the PowerConnect Cloud modular input tarball, then click Upload

  

• If a restart is required click the Restart Now button and click OK to confirm

  

• After restarting the PowerConnect Cloud app should be visible in the Launcher app

  

• Click on the PowerConnect Cloud for Splunk app to open its Home page then click the Configuration tab and enter your license key

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• Click Apply License

• The PowerConnect Cloud Modular Input is now ready for Inputs to be configured

  
  

SAP Cloud Foundry Installation

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• Download the PowerConnect Cloud SAP Cloud Foundry package and manifest file

• Make sure you have the Cloud Foundry command line tools installed

• Copy the PowerConnect Cloud package and manifest file to a folder for deployment

• Modify the manfiest file and enter a password for the POWERCONNECT_SECRET environment variable
  

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  --- applications: - name: powerconnect-cloud memory: 1024M timeout: 300 random-route: true path: ./powerconnect-cloud.zip buildpacks: - https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack.git env: POWERCONNECT_SECRET: <insert password here> JBP_CONFIG_OPEN_JDK_JRE: "jre: { version: 11.+ }" JBP_CONFIG_DIST_ZIP: "arguments: ['start']"

• If required update the memory settings, by default the manifest will create a 1GB instance

• Deploy the package

  Code Block
  cf push

• After a minute or two the process should finish and the PowerConnect Cloud agent should be in “started” state
  

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• The Cloud Foundry environment does not have persistent storage so we need to use the SAP Object Storage service for the PowerConnect Cloud agent to be able to persist its configuration

• Follow the documentation here to create an object store service and bind it to the PowerConnect Cloud app - https://help.sap.com/doc/3e17a6e11f3e46f4af9f33387471e3e0/Cloud/en-US/ObjectStore-EN.pdf

• Once the Object Store service has been bound to the PowerConnect Cloud app restage the app

  Code Block
  cf restage powerconnect-cloud

• The PowerConnect Cloud application should now be running and leveraging object storage as it’s datastore

  Code Block
  cf env

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