topic Automating Splunk upgrade for clustered deployment in Splunk Enterprise

Automating Splunk upgrade for clustered deployment

azteksites — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 21:41:42 GMT

Looking for recommendations for automating the Splunk version upgrade process for a clustered (indexer & search head cluster) deployment. I'm curious if I can consolidate the upgrade process into a centrally automated solution.

Details

Windows server based environment
indexer cluster
search cluster
multisite
deployment server
license/MC server

Thanks in advance!

Re: Automating Splunk upgrade for clustered deployment

richgalloway — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 01:24:54 GMT

Yes, you can automate Splunk upgrades. Many customers do so using a variety of tools.

There's nothing special needed, just teach your automation to perform the same steps you would do manually.

Those steps are documented at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Forwarder/9.2.1/Forwarder/InstallaWindowsuniversalforwarderfromaninstaller