splunk_for_vmware_appliance folder missing

Question

I need to set my ESXi host to work with Splunk, I have only that one unmanaged host, here:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/VMW/latest/Install/Asimpleengine.conf
I saw that I need to create my engine.conf file in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/splunk_for_vmware_appliance/local, but thare's no splunk_for_vmware_appliance folder where bin and .metadata folders should be stored too. How it's possible that folder isn't there? What should I do to compile my engine.conf and inputs.conf files?

Answer 1

Splunk stopped supporting ESXi hosts, which works without vCenter, that's why compiler isn't there. It wasn't used so they decided to suport only with vCenter. Their tutorial wasn't updated yet.