topic Re: how to define persistent queues path? in Getting Data In

how to define persistent queues path?

fernandoandre — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:50:17 GMT

I'm using persistent queues in a Heavy Forwarder (like this) with Splunk 4.3.x

I was searching on how to define the path where the persistent queue file is saved and I found this
(http://wiki.splunk.com/Community:Best_Practice_For_Configuring_Syslog_Input) which seems to be from August2011. However the latest versions of outputs.conf don't have any reference to the attribute "persistentQueuePath". It seems it was deprecated (?) and removed. The attribute that still exists is "maxQueueSize" that can define the size of the queue.

Does anyone knows how to define the path where Splunk saves the persistent queue? Have anyone tried this feature?

Thank you

Re: how to define persistent queues path?

fernandoandre — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:51:17 GMT

I realize that according to this (http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Usepersistentqueues) persistent queues from Splunk 4.2 are configured on inputs.conf and not on outputs.conf. However, in the latest inputs.conf there is still no attribute to define the path of the persistent queue. Only "persistentQueueSize". Are the others deprecated? Can I use "persistentQueuePath" with confidence?

Re: how to define persistent queues path?

fernandoandre — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:22:10 GMT

Can anyone (from Splunk maybe?) confirm that this feature is deprecated or still usable?

Re: how to define persistent queues path?

dshakespeare_sp — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:47:53 GMT

persistentQueuePath is not used in Splunk 4.2.x
Only the persistentQueueSize can be changed.

The location is hardcoded to

$SPLUNK_HOME/splunk/var/run/splunk/??pin/pq_

eg
TCP:2012 = /opt/splunk4/splunk/var/run/splunk/tcppin/pq_2012
UDP:2012 = /opt/splunk4/splunk/var/run/splunk/udpin/pq_2012

Hope this helps