topic Re: Can I migrate to a new Splunk server without re-configuring forwarders? in Deployment Architecture https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301736#M11379 <P>I believe they should be fine. Is your standalone instance a Deployment server as well? </P> Fri, 19 May 2017 18:54:35 GMT somesoni2 2017-05-19T18:54:35Z Can I migrate to a new Splunk server without re-configuring forwarders? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301732#M11375 <P>I'd like to change my Splunk server to a different Linux distribution from Fedora to Centos. Indexer, search head and splunk web is all running off of one singer server for now. If I give the new Splunk server the same IP as the existing server after shutting down the old server, do I need to do any reconfiguration of all my splunk forwarders?</P> Fri, 19 May 2017 17:44:50 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301732#M11375 bayman 2017-05-19T17:44:50Z Re: Can I migrate to a new Splunk server without re-configuring forwarders? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301733#M11376 <P>are the forwarders outputs.conf is by IP or servername?</P> Fri, 19 May 2017 17:59:41 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301733#M11376 adonio 2017-05-19T17:59:41Z Re: Can I migrate to a new Splunk server without re-configuring forwarders? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301734#M11377 <P>It is by IP</P> Fri, 19 May 2017 18:07:47 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301734#M11377 bayman 2017-05-19T18:07:47Z Re: Can I migrate to a new Splunk server without re-configuring forwarders? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301735#M11378 <P>will ask community to verify but i think you will be fine </P> Fri, 19 May 2017 18:36:50 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301735#M11378 adonio 2017-05-19T18:36:50Z Re: Can I migrate to a new Splunk server without re-configuring forwarders? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301736#M11379 <P>I believe they should be fine. Is your standalone instance a Deployment server as well? </P> Fri, 19 May 2017 18:54:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301736#M11379 somesoni2 2017-05-19T18:54:35Z Re: Can I migrate to a new Splunk server without re-configuring forwarders? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301737#M11380 <P>Forwarder management was never configured on this instance. All the apps and forwarders were manually deployed and configured from each host.</P> Fri, 19 May 2017 19:05:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301737#M11380 bayman 2017-05-19T19:05:43Z Re: Can I migrate to a new Splunk server without re-configuring forwarders? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301738#M11381 <P>So, as long as new standalone servers is same network configuration (IP, Firewall rule/cname etc if any), this should work just fine.</P> Fri, 19 May 2017 19:56:29 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301738#M11381 somesoni2 2017-05-19T19:56:29Z Re: Can I migrate to a new Splunk server without re-configuring forwarders? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301739#M11382 <P>Correct; as long as your new server has the same IP address (or hostname, depending on what you had in your configuration files, e.g. <CODE>outputs.conf</CODE>), everything will work just fine. Since you are going back and "getting things right", you should make sure that you setup both a Deployment Server and a Management Console, too.</P> Fri, 19 May 2017 21:21:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-I-migrate-to-a-new-Splunk-server-without-re-configuring/m-p/301739#M11382 woodcock 2017-05-19T21:21:14Z