Deployment Architecture

Rename sites in multisite cluster?

Julieda
Explorer

I currently have a multisite index cluster With two sites: site1 and site2. I wish to rename those sites to e.g. 0A and 0B. When having edited the servers.conf files (both under the [general]-stanza and under the [clustering]-stanza: available_sites) and replaced the site names with new ones, Splunk will not start due to "Error = Invalid site id: 0A". When changing the site names back to site1 and 2, everything works fine.

Is there any way to name the cluster sites something other than site1 and site2?

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mahamed_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Not in the current version. The supported values are site1 to site63

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stscholz
New Member

1 1/2 years and some splunk versions later, did splunk change the supported values?
We like to use our own naming.

Thanks for any feedback.

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mahamed_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Not in the current version. The supported values are site1 to site63

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Julieda
Explorer

Ok, thank you!

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