Deployment Architecture

Orphaned Searches: how do you disable the orphan notifications on search head members?

koshyk
Super Champion

hi,

We have quite a large amount of users and hence leavers/movers are common. We are aware of how to fix the orphaned searches, but we do it in a reactive way. But if a person leaves, immediately it starts popping up on the search head, which is visible to other users too.

We have a deployer, which has oversight of all search heads, and it is also showing there, which is good enough for administrators.

Hence the query,..which .conf file can we push the configs to search heads only, so the orphaned notifications are NOT shown?

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mlevsh
Builder

@koshyk
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.0/Knowledge/Resolveorphanedsearches:
"If you would rather not receive these notifications, open limits.conf, look for the [system_checks] stanza, and set orphan_searches to disabled"

Modify the link according to your Splunk version.

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mlevsh
Builder

@koshyk
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.0/Knowledge/Resolveorphanedsearches:
"If you would rather not receive these notifications, open limits.conf, look for the [system_checks] stanza, and set orphan_searches to disabled"

Modify the link according to your Splunk version.

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koshyk
Super Champion

thank you mate. cheers

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