Hi,
Potential for a silly question here, but I just want a solid answer...
Is it possible to install the 64-bit version of Universal Forwarder for version 4.3.1 on a Windows Server 2012.
Cheers,
Matt
Why not? 64 bit is 64 bit, however it's not supported. Since it works with 2008R2, it should work with 2012.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.1/Installation/Systemrequirements
Supported OSes
Splunk is supported on the following platforms.
Solaris 9, 10 (x86, SPARC)
Linux Kernel vers 2.6.x and above (x86: 32 and 64-bit)
FreeBSD 6.1 (x86: 32-bit), 6.2, 7.x, 8.x (x86: 32 and 64-bit)
Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 (64-bit, supported but not recommended on 32-bit)
Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 (64-bit, supported but not recommended on 32-bit)
Windows XP (32-bit)
Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit)
Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit)
MacOSX 10.5 and 10.6 (32-bit and 64-bit in one download. 10.6 is only supported in 32-bit mode.)
AIX 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1
HP-UX 11iv2 (11.22) and 11iv3 (11.31) (PA-RISC or Itanium, gnu tar is required to unpack the tar.gz archive)
Why not? 64 bit is 64 bit, however it's not supported. Since it works with 2008R2, it should work with 2012.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.1/Installation/Systemrequirements
Supported OSes
Splunk is supported on the following platforms.
Solaris 9, 10 (x86, SPARC)
Linux Kernel vers 2.6.x and above (x86: 32 and 64-bit)
FreeBSD 6.1 (x86: 32-bit), 6.2, 7.x, 8.x (x86: 32 and 64-bit)
Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 (64-bit, supported but not recommended on 32-bit)
Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 (64-bit, supported but not recommended on 32-bit)
Windows XP (32-bit)
Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit)
Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit)
MacOSX 10.5 and 10.6 (32-bit and 64-bit in one download. 10.6 is only supported in 32-bit mode.)
AIX 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1
HP-UX 11iv2 (11.22) and 11iv3 (11.31) (PA-RISC or Itanium, gnu tar is required to unpack the tar.gz archive)