topic Re: Configuration Management in Reporting

Configuration Management

hbazan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:25:09 GMT

Hi. We are thinking about how to do configuration management for our Splunk instance. What we need is to be sure that we can fully rebuild Splunk in case of server problems, migration, etc. I mean, can I save every configuration and saved searches/views/navigation/reports?. Our first attempt was to commit into SVN this folders: etc & share.

PS: We're not trying to do a database backup, but configurations, settings and so.

Re: Configuration Management

ziegfried — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:38:40 GMT

Generally creating a regular backup of the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc directory should be sufficient. All configurations, saved searches, views, ... are located there. Using Subversion for the etc directory would work as well.

Re: Configuration Management

gkanapathy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:57:22 GMT

The only things in share that would normally edited or site-specific would be SSL certificates for the Splunk web interface if you are using those.

Re: Configuration Management

kml_uvce — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 05:37:54 GMT

Regular backup will not work in case you overide files and you want to earliar/previous file, in svn you can get all previous files so put your files in svn if you want previous version of configuration files...

-Kamal Bisht