topic Restart Splunk Search Head only in single host installation of Splunk Enterprise in Installation

Restart Splunk Search Head only in single host installation of Splunk Enterprise

adckia — Thu, 02 May 2019 14:58:40 GMT

Hello,
In a test environment, we have a single-host installation of Splunk Enterprise, i.e.
- License Master
- Indexer (single, no cluster)
- Deployment Server
- Search Head (single, no cluster)
- Monitoring Console
all run on the same machine.
The question is: How can we restart the Search Head (in order to have it reload the apps an saved searches from the file system) without stopping the other Splunk processes (in particular, we don't want the Indexer to stop)?
Thanks for any hints.

Re: Restart Splunk Search Head only in single host installation of Splunk Enterprise

enicholson_splu — Thu, 02 May 2019 16:07:43 GMT

You can do a debug/refresh which will not stop the Splunk service:

http://localhost:8000/en-US/debug/refresh

However, an App install or particular changes may require a Splunk restart.

Re: Restart Splunk Search Head only in single host installation of Splunk Enterprise

adckia — Fri, 03 May 2019 07:52:37 GMT

Thanks for the hint.
Does this also reload an app updated on the file system?

Re: Restart Splunk Search Head only in single host installation of Splunk Enterprise

adckia — Fri, 03 May 2019 13:00:32 GMT

It works for my current purpose of reloading the alerts.
Thank you very much.

Re: Restart Splunk Search Head only in single host installation of Splunk Enterprise

enicholson_splu — Fri, 03 May 2019 13:16:28 GMT

It will reload/refresh config changes. If it is a new App install or upgrade it may need a restart.