https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/How-co-I-upgrade-splunk-4-3-4-to-splunk-5-using-tar-gz-installer/m-p/38326#M592 <P>Hi </P> <P>I have Splunk 4.3.4 installed using tgz installer on MacOS and Linux.<BR /> I want to upgrade them using tar installer to Splunk 5.</P> <P>Is there automatic upgrade available in tgz installer?<BR /> Do I have to manually copy all the configurations in another location and do clean installaion of splunk 5 then copy all configuration back to the splunk 5 installation?</P> <P>Thank you </P> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:17:44 GMT melonman 2012-11-19T00:17:44Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/How-co-I-upgrade-splunk-4-3-4-to-splunk-5-using-tar-gz-installer/m-p/38326#M592 <P>Hi </P> <P>I have Splunk 4.3.4 installed using tgz installer on MacOS and Linux.<BR /> I want to upgrade them using tar installer to Splunk 5.</P> <P>Is there automatic upgrade available in tgz installer?<BR /> Do I have to manually copy all the configurations in another location and do clean installaion of splunk 5 then copy all configuration back to the splunk 5 installation?</P> <P>Thank you </P> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:17:44 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/How-co-I-upgrade-splunk-4-3-4-to-splunk-5-using-tar-gz-installer/m-p/38326#M592 melonman 2012-11-19T00:17:44Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/How-co-I-upgrade-splunk-4-3-4-to-splunk-5-using-tar-gz-installer/m-p/38327#M593 <P>The process to upgrade is easy. The high-level steps are as follows:</P> <OL> <LI>Stop Splunk</LI> <LI>Backup your Splunk data (just to be safe)</LI> <LI>Untar the appropriate version, overwriting the old version (provided your configuration changes were not entered into a "default" directory, your configurations will not be overwritten)</LI> <LI>Start Splunk (you will be asked whether you want to upgrade)</LI> <LI>Log in and enjoy your upgraded Splunk.</LI> </OL> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Installation/InstallonLinux">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Installation/InstallonLinux</A></P> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:47:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/How-co-I-upgrade-splunk-4-3-4-to-splunk-5-using-tar-gz-installer/m-p/38327#M593 sbrant_splunk 2012-11-19T00:47:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/How-co-I-upgrade-splunk-4-3-4-to-splunk-5-using-tar-gz-installer/m-p/38328#M594 <P>Keep in mind, in a distributed environment, you should upgrade components in the following order:</P> <OL> <LI>indexers</LI> <LI>search heads</LI> <LI>forwarders</LI> </OL> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:29:41 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/How-co-I-upgrade-splunk-4-3-4-to-splunk-5-using-tar-gz-installer/m-p/38328#M594 sbrant_splunk 2012-11-19T01:29:41Z