How to migrate old instance to new instance on-premises?

FEZ_40 — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 05:43:47 GMT

I am trying to accomplish a few actions.

1. Move the stand alone server from one location to a different location.

2. Upgrade from old server w/unsupported Splunk version to new server with the latest version all running in Windows.

3. Make sure the systems reporting to the old console report into the new one.

4. Eventually decommission old instance.

It was recommended to me to make the new instance the search head and connect to the old instance as a search peer, but then I started to see the following errors in the new instance:

"Problem replicating config (bundle) to search peer ' X.X.X.X:8089 ', Upload bundle="C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\run\hostname-1654707664.bundle" to peer name=hostname uri=https://X.X.X.X:8089 failed; http_status=409 http_description="Conflict".

Then, I tried to . Point the Universal Forwarders to the new instance, adding the CLI commands, since no outputs.conf was in the old instance.

and got the following errors:

RED - the health status for the splunkd service.

RED - TCPOUTAutoLB-Q

RED - TailReader-0

I really appreciate all the help.

Thank you,

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How to migrate old instance to new instance on-premises?