splunk installation on windows

1. Go to the splunk.com and download the Splunk Enterprise package for windows

2.  Click on the windows tab to download the windows installer

3.  Click on the  .msi file to start the installation

4. When the installation window opens , click on the install tab to start the installation

5. installation in progress

 6. Once installation is complete, start the splunk
      go to  http://<ipaddress>:8001/ to access the splunk

7.  To start from command prompt,

 go C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin

and run the command,
                               
                              splunk start

Install python xlrd package in windows

1. Download the xlrd  .tar.gz package from
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd


2. Unzip and untar the file and go to the location where the setup.py file is location and run the command to install xlrd package

               python setup.py install