So I am able to get the free edition of Splunk running just fine, but found that when I went to the IP address, it automatically logged me in
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/829/can-you-disable-auto-login-on-splunk-free.html
It seems as if there is no other way to avoid having a random person go to that IP and automatically logging in as root without having to setup a web proxy or applying other networking rules to that host. Either way I'd like to focus more on using Splunk rather than troubleshooting it.
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