This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.0 , 4.0.1 , 4.0.2 , 4.0.3 , 4.0.4 , 4.0.5 , 4.0.6 , 4.0.7 , 4.0.8 , 4.0.9 , 4.0.10
On Windows, Splunk is installed by default into C:\Program Files\Splunk. Many examples in the Splunk documentation use $SPLUNK_HOME to indicate the Splunk installation, or home, directory. You can replace the string $SPLUNK_HOME with C:\Program Files\Splunk if you installed Splunk into the default directory.
Start and stop the following Splunk processes via the Windows Services Manager:
splunkd
splunkweb
You can also start, stop, and restart both processes at once by going to \Program Files\Splunk\bin and typing
# splunk [start|stop|restart]