Deployment Architecture

Adding new indexer to indexer cluster

ankithreddy777
Contributor

If a new indexer is added to the cluster. Do we need to manually push the cluster-bundle from master to indexers OR Cluster-bundle will be automatically pushed to new indexer once it communicates with the master?

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Steve_G_
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The indexer automatically downloads the bundle.

Discussed in the docs here: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.0/Indexer/Updatepeerconfigurations#Distribution_of_t...

jtacy
Builder

I couldn't find a reference that details the process in the docs, but in my experience new indexers get the bundle and are ready for production use immediately.

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