ansible-role-for-splunk doesn't work with linux x86.64 platform on the newest version 9.4.0

[Xathviar]

Hello everyone,

I manage my infrastracture with ansible-role-for-splunk. I recently wanted to upgrade the servers to 9.4.0 and noticed that the download is failing.

TASK [splunk.splunk : Download Splunk full package] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** FAILED - RETRYING: [ansible -> localhost]: Download Splunk full package (3 retries left). FAILED - RETRYING: [ansible -> localhost]: Download Splunk full package (2 retries left). FAILED - RETRYING: [ansible -> localhost]: Download Splunk full package (1 retries left). fatal: [ansible -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"attempts": 3, "changed": false, "dest": "/root//splunk-9.4.0-6b4ebe426ca6-Linux-x86_64.tgz", "elapsed": 0, "msg": "Request failed", "response": "HTTP Error 404: Not Found", "status_code": 404, "url": "https://download.splunk.com/products/splunk/releases/9.4.0/linux/splunk-9.4.0-6b4ebe426ca6-Linux-x86_64.tgz"}

This is due to the 9.4.0 heavy forwarder package not being provided with x86_64 as a tgz but only as rpm.
Is there some way so that I can use the rpm package instead of the tgz or that the x86_64 package will be also provided as a tgz.

Thx and BR
Andreas

[dtwersky]

The 9.4.0 version is set to the linux-amd64 architecture, which should be the same as Linux-x86_64.
Till there is a permanent fix, you can try to set the variable manually like this:

splunk_package_url_full: "https://download.splunk.com/products/splunk/releases/{{ splunk_package_version }}/linux/splunk-{{ splunk_package_version }}-{{ build_id }}-linux-amd64.tgz"

splunk_package_url_uf: "https://download.splunk.com/products/universalforwarder/releases/{{ splunk_package_version }}/linux/splunkforwarder-{{ splunk_package_version }}-{{ build_id }}-linux-amd64.tgz"