topic Re: Why is splunk-launch.conf not in system/local? in Getting Data In

Why is splunk-launch.conf not in system/local?

nick405060 — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:51:01 GMT

Why is splunk-launch.conf not in system/local?

Re: Why is splunk-launch.conf not in system/local?

jawaharas — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 02:52:16 GMT

Note from splunk-launch.conf didn't help?

# Note: this conf file is different from most splunk conf files.  There is
# only one in the whole system, located at
# $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/splunk-launch.conf; further, there are no stanzas,
# explicit or implicit.  Finally, any splunk-launch.conf files in
# etc/apps/... or etc/users/... will be ignored.

Re: Why is splunk-launch.conf not in system/local?

nick405060 — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 02:59:09 GMT

yeah, but still curious as to why

Re: Why is splunk-launch.conf not in system/local?

adonio — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:55:31 GMT

i think that because of the nature of the configurations this file holds, you really dont want any conflict or overwrite due to hierarchy.
even at system/local, it can be overwritten or conflicted by writing same file in an indexer cluster (slave-apps directory) or search head cluster (moves to the default directory when pushing bundle)
any conflicts in this file will cause pain ...
nothing above is supported in any docs (that i could find) just a guess

Re: Why is splunk-launch.conf not in system/local?

solarboyz1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 01:46:51 GMT

Because Splunk-launch.conf hold startup information, that is required to get the Splunk application started to the point it can read the other configuraiton files.

The settings for the SPLUNK_HOME and SPLUNK_DB variables are set in this file. How can it read the files in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps if it doesnt know the value of SPLUNK_HOME?