https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Mix-up-with-Splunk-6-and-Splunk-5/m-p/128153#M2166 <P>I would like to upgrade our Splunk 5 Servers to version 6.<BR /> But for some reasons, I don't want to upgrade the indexer servers at this time.</P> <P>So I think I would upgrade the Search Head Server to Splunk 6 first, take advantage of new features , <BR /> and remain the indexer servers as version 5.</P> <P>I have tested this solution in my lab and looked just O.K. , but I was wondering if there are any side-effects?</P> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:44:53 GMT leo_wang 2014-04-11T03:44:53Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Mix-up-with-Splunk-6-and-Splunk-5/m-p/128153#M2166 <P>I would like to upgrade our Splunk 5 Servers to version 6.<BR /> But for some reasons, I don't want to upgrade the indexer servers at this time.</P> <P>So I think I would upgrade the Search Head Server to Splunk 6 first, take advantage of new features , <BR /> and remain the indexer servers as version 5.</P> <P>I have tested this solution in my lab and looked just O.K. , but I was wondering if there are any side-effects?</P> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:44:53 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Mix-up-with-Splunk-6-and-Splunk-5/m-p/128153#M2166 leo_wang 2014-04-11T03:44:53Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Mix-up-with-Splunk-6-and-Splunk-5/m-p/128154#M2167 <P>Running Splunk 6 search heads against Splunk 5 indexers is supported, see <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.3/DistSearch/Versioncompatibility">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.3/DistSearch/Versioncompatibility</A> for a few small caveats.</P> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:18:23 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Mix-up-with-Splunk-6-and-Splunk-5/m-p/128154#M2167 martin_mueller 2014-04-11T13:18:23Z