https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Universal-Forwarder-Repeated-Migration/m-p/84404#M17536 <P>According to the documentation on upgrading a universal forwarder on Windows, the upgrade will ignore any commandline flags, such as MIGRATESPLUNK:</P> <P><A href="http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Deploy/UpgradetheWindowsuniversalforwarder">http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Deploy/UpgradetheWindowsuniversalforwarder</A></P> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:25:58 GMT Steve_G_ 2011-04-19T18:25:58Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Universal-Forwarder-Repeated-Migration/m-p/84403#M17535 <P>If I have a 4.2 Universal Forwarder (Windows) installed on a machine that was migrated from 4.1.x and still has the old installation present but not active, what is the behavior of a second "migration" to 4.2.1, i.e. MIGRATESPLUNK=1? </P> <P>Will it copy checkpoints from the 4.1.x install or just upgrade over the 4.2 install?</P> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:02:08 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Universal-Forwarder-Repeated-Migration/m-p/84403#M17535 trevorford 2011-04-19T18:02:08Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Universal-Forwarder-Repeated-Migration/m-p/84404#M17536 <P>According to the documentation on upgrading a universal forwarder on Windows, the upgrade will ignore any commandline flags, such as MIGRATESPLUNK:</P> <P><A href="http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Deploy/UpgradetheWindowsuniversalforwarder">http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Deploy/UpgradetheWindowsuniversalforwarder</A></P> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:25:58 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Universal-Forwarder-Repeated-Migration/m-p/84404#M17536 Steve_G_ 2011-04-19T18:25:58Z