Deployment Architecture

Migrating ITSI from shared search head to dedicated search head?

jtsplunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I'm looking to migrate ITSI 2.4 (IT Service Intelligence), which is on a shared, clustered set of search heads (SH)'s, to a dedicated SH running ITSI 2.6.

Is there a guide or how-to on how this might be accomplished? What sort of directories and configuration information should be moved/copied to the new location?

Thank you.

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

ITSI uses the kv-store to maintain its data. You can run a simple backup and apply it to your dedicated search head ( I did this exact same thing last week)

To test it, you can take the backup, restore the backup on your new search head and verify your services and KPI's are populating correctly. This assumes your dedicated SH is searching the same indexers as your shared SH.

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

ITSI uses the kv-store to maintain its data. You can run a simple backup and apply it to your dedicated search head ( I did this exact same thing last week)

To test it, you can take the backup, restore the backup on your new search head and verify your services and KPI's are populating correctly. This assumes your dedicated SH is searching the same indexers as your shared SH.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

I believe Backup and Restore option would work for you. See this for more information: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ITSI/2.6.1/Configure/BackupandRestoreITSIconfig

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