topic Re: upgrade forwarder to Splunk 6 without reboot in Getting Data In

upgrade forwarder to Splunk 6 without reboot

jonthanze — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:57:48 GMT

Hi

i have several windows servers with the Splunk universal forwarder version 5.xx.
I wanted to upgrade my forwarders to 6.0 but each time i run the install file of 6 i request me rebooting my server.

Isn't there a way to upgrade my forwarders without rebooting the servers ?

Re: upgrade forwarder to Splunk 6 without reboot

lukejadamec — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:06:07 GMT

Are you stopping the splunkd service prior to the install? If you don't, then I'm pretty sure a reboot is required to finish cleaning things up in a Windows environment.

Re: upgrade forwarder to Splunk 6 without reboot

jonthanze — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:24:24 GMT

thanks a lot, that helped !

Re: upgrade forwarder to Splunk 6 without reboot

lukejadamec — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:26:25 GMT

No problem

Re: upgrade forwarder to Splunk 6 without reboot

rickjury — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 00:50:30 GMT

This happened to us when we started upgrading forwarders in production even though it never happened on 100 non prod ones. This should be in the manual in huge letters somewhere...