Deployment Architecture

Conf file precedence in a distributed setup?

infrauser
Explorer

I read the admin guide section on conf file precedence. It didn't see any info on the implications of a distributed setup.

Scenario: search-head indexer-1 indexer-2

I am thinking of having a props file on the search head which references 2 different transforms. 1 of the transforms will be defined in the transforms file on the search head. The other transform will be located in etc/system/local on each of the indexers. Each indexer will have a slightly different version of the transform due to what they are processing.

Will splunk span the confs between the replicated search head props/transforms and the local indexer version of the transforms conf?

1 Solution

gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

For search-time configurations, only the configuration on the search head is considered. These configurations are automatically propagated to the indexers and used if necessary (e.g. field extractions used in search queries).

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

For search-time configurations, only the configuration on the search head is considered. These configurations are automatically propagated to the indexers and used if necessary (e.g. field extractions used in search queries).

essklau
Path Finder

So if I have a limits.conf with multiple indexers, the file needs to be altered on the indexers, not the search heads?

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jrodman
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

There is one exception; limits.conf settings are only used on the local system, so if you need to alter limits.conf settings they must be done on the indexing nodes.

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