https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Should-we-be-adding-a-restart-flag-to-the-Splunk-quot-Patching/m-p/473506#M81336 <P>As mentioned in the document, you do not need the restart of the Splunk services once the patch is done.</P> <P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/ReleaseNotes/FixDatetimexml2020#Download_and_deploy_an_app_that_temporarily_replaces_the_defective_datetime.xml_file_with_the_fixed_file">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/ReleaseNotes/FixDatetimexml2020#Download_and_deploy_an_app_that_temporarily_replaces_the_defective_datetime.xml_file_with_the_fixed_file</A></P> Tue, 31 Dec 2019 12:07:32 GMT saramamurthy_sp 2019-12-31T12:07:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Should-we-be-adding-a-restart-flag-to-the-Splunk-quot-Patching/m-p/473504#M81334 <P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/ReleaseNotes/FixDatetimexml2020">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/ReleaseNotes/FixDatetimexml2020</A></P> <P>I noticed this app didn't have the restart flag, should we be adding this in order to restart all our universal forwarders?</P> Mon, 30 Dec 2019 18:00:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Should-we-be-adding-a-restart-flag-to-the-Splunk-quot-Patching/m-p/473504#M81334 briancronrath 2019-12-30T18:00:55Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Should-we-be-adding-a-restart-flag-to-the-Splunk-quot-Patching/m-p/473505#M81335 <P>Restarting is not necessary.</P> Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:53:38 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Should-we-be-adding-a-restart-flag-to-the-Splunk-quot-Patching/m-p/473505#M81335 richgalloway 2019-12-30T19:53:38Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Should-we-be-adding-a-restart-flag-to-the-Splunk-quot-Patching/m-p/473506#M81336 <P>As mentioned in the document, you do not need the restart of the Splunk services once the patch is done.</P> <P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/ReleaseNotes/FixDatetimexml2020#Download_and_deploy_an_app_that_temporarily_replaces_the_defective_datetime.xml_file_with_the_fixed_file">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/ReleaseNotes/FixDatetimexml2020#Download_and_deploy_an_app_that_temporarily_replaces_the_defective_datetime.xml_file_with_the_fixed_file</A></P> Tue, 31 Dec 2019 12:07:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Should-we-be-adding-a-restart-flag-to-the-Splunk-quot-Patching/m-p/473506#M81336 saramamurthy_sp 2019-12-31T12:07:32Z