topic Splunk server Patching in Deployment Architecture

Splunk server Patching

Prakash493 — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:13:55 GMT

Hi , My infra team is doing the Vulnerability patching on linux servers as we have 6 indexers clustered , we are doing patching on 3 indexers and 3 search heads clustered. is their anything that i need to do except validating the servers after patching ? as they are doing on 3 indexers i am thinking to enable maintenance mode ?

Re: Splunk server Patching

richgalloway — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 03:31:46 GMT

Yes, use maintenance mode. And run splunk offline on each indexer before it is patched.

Re: Splunk server Patching

Prakash493 — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:04:20 GMT

is it any problem if i use ./splunk stop command and after patching i will start the service , If i use splunk offline command what it will do and once patching finished how can i start splunk is by using ./splunk start ?

Re: Splunk server Patching

richgalloway — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 21:33:02 GMT

splunk offline is better. See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/Indexer/Takeapeeroffline.

Re: Splunk server Patching

Prakash493 — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 22:05:32 GMT

Awesome thanks