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I think a cluster configuration of Splunk.
Considering of Indexer redundancy, the cluster configuration needs at least 4 splunk instances,
master node, two peers, search head (replication factor=2）.
We are not always able to get enough environments (one instance on one machine).
So I think multi splunk intances on one machine.
Is it supported ?
And are there any supported installing procedures ?
(I confirmed that Splunk is able to introduce to nix more than once with a force option in RPM.
And according to below URL, maybe we can do that in Windows system.
Community:Run multiple Splunks on one machine - Splunk Wiki http://wiki.splunk.com/Community:Run_multiple_Splunks_on_one_machine )
Thank you.
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As a first remark, having 2 indexers with replication on the same hardware beats the purpose of the replication.
So you should at least have one machine per indexer.
Second remark : The master cannot do double duty as a peer node or a search head, and it cannot reside on the same machine as a peer node or search head. see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Basicclusterarchitecture#Master_node
However you can run a search-head on the same machine than an indexer, or even turn the indexer into a search-head. But this will impact your indexing and search performance.
To run several instances on the same linux box, install in 2 different locations and edit the web.conf to specify different management ports and different web ports. To run several instance on windows, I still have doubts on this. ( and in general splunk indexer performance are slightly better on linux anyway)
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As a first remark, having 2 indexers with replication on the same hardware beats the purpose of the replication.
So you should at least have one machine per indexer.
Second remark : The master cannot do double duty as a peer node or a search head, and it cannot reside on the same machine as a peer node or search head. see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Basicclusterarchitecture#Master_node
However you can run a search-head on the same machine than an indexer, or even turn the indexer into a search-head. But this will impact your indexing and search performance.
To run several instances on the same linux box, install in 2 different locations and edit the web.conf to specify different management ports and different web ports. To run several instance on windows, I still have doubts on this. ( and in general splunk indexer performance are slightly better on linux anyway)
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Actually, we can reside multi instances on the same machine by changing install directory (eg. rpm --force -ihv --prefix=/opt/(splunk instance) (splunk media).rpm).
But it may be not recommended to coexist peers because of its performance, and master node which is not supported for the double duty.
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Cannot reside on the same machine? Not even as a separate instance? How would it know anyway?
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