topic Scripts Directory & upgrades in Getting Data In

Scripts Directory & upgrades

Jarohnimo — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:43:12 GMT

Do the scripts you place in opt/splunk/bin/scripts

Remain persistent even after upgrades? Can someone provide documentation that explains?

Note: the scripts we need are not for the app context, so placing them there for us won't work.

Thanks

Re: Scripts Directory & upgrades

harsmarvania57 — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:56:43 GMT

Hi,

After splunk upgrade, scripts in /opt/splunk/bin/scripts should be there as it is but on safer side I'll suggest you to take backup before upgrade.

Re: Scripts Directory & upgrades

Jarohnimo — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:35:16 GMT

Thanks,

Can you please point me to any documentation that supports this? I felt like this was the case as a vaguely remember upgrading and it still working.... but am engaging with a customer and like to have the doc reference if possible

Thanks

Re: Scripts Directory & upgrades

harsmarvania57 — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:48:23 GMT

I am not aware of any documentation, when you upgrade splunk it will overwrite any existing files and/or place any new files in directories. As /opt/splunk/bin/scripts is empty directory when you fresh install splunk so I am not expecting splunk will remove or overwrite any files in /opt/splunk/bin/scripts directory during upgrade.