Deployment Architecture

Does the deployment server need to be the same version or higher than the forwarders?

erinboudreau
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Does the deployment server need to be the same version or higher than the forwarders? Example: my deployment server is 6.2 and I want to upgrade all my forwarders to 6.3. Do I need to upgrade my deployment server before I can upgrade my forwarders?

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somesoni2
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The Splunk Deployment Server should always be kept up to date since it is backwards compatible with agents but agents are not backwards compatible with old deployment server functionality.

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