https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173951#M35005 <P>Nothing in the back end logs, nothing in the UI. I dont see anywhere there may be a conflict. Searching works just fine. No conflicts on the indexers themselvs either.</P> Wed, 21 May 2014 15:56:35 GMT jmheaton 2014-05-21T15:56:35Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173945#M34999 <P>Aside from the new internal index, are there any issues running a 6.1.1 searchhead with 6.0 indexers? I am trying to test functionality on our searchhead before rolling 6.1.1 to the entire environment.</P> <P>Thanks</P> Wed, 21 May 2014 14:19:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173945#M34999 jodros 2014-05-21T14:19:55Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173946#M35000 <P>I think your looking for <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/DistSearch/Versioncompatibility">this information</A>. Here's the specific quote:</P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>6.x search heads are compatible with 6.x and 5.x search peers, in a non-clustered environment. The search head must be at the same or higher level than the search peers: </P> <UL> <LI>A 6.x search head is compatible with a 5.x search peer.<BR /></LI> <LI>A 5.x search head is not compatible with a 6.x search peer.</LI> </UL> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Search peers here mean your indexers</P> Wed, 21 May 2014 15:09:57 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173946#M35000 jameshgibson 2014-05-21T15:09:57Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173947#M35001 <P>I rolled out 6.1 to a single of our search heads about a week ago. No problems to report here. <BR /> Search heads are running 6.1 on one data mount, 6.0 on another mount, with all of our Indexers on 6.0</P> Wed, 21 May 2014 15:46:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173947#M35001 jmheaton 2014-05-21T15:46:49Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173948#M35002 <P>Thank you for your response. I saw this, but was looking for more actual experience in running an environment in this hybrid 6.x way.</P> <P>Thanks</P> Wed, 21 May 2014 15:49:12 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173948#M35002 jodros 2014-05-21T15:49:12Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173949#M35003 <P>Did the 6.1 searchhead display any sort of notifications about incompatibility with 6.0 indexers?</P> Wed, 21 May 2014 15:49:56 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173949#M35003 jodros 2014-05-21T15:49:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173950#M35004 <P>Nothing in the UI, give me a sec and i can check the back end.</P> Wed, 21 May 2014 15:51:06 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173950#M35004 jmheaton 2014-05-21T15:51:06Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173951#M35005 <P>Nothing in the back end logs, nothing in the UI. I dont see anywhere there may be a conflict. Searching works just fine. No conflicts on the indexers themselvs either.</P> Wed, 21 May 2014 15:56:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173951#M35005 jmheaton 2014-05-21T15:56:35Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173952#M35006 <P>Thanks man!</P> Wed, 21 May 2014 17:08:56 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Running-6-1-1-Searchhead-with-6-0-Indexers/m-p/173952#M35006 jodros 2014-05-21T17:08:56Z