Deployment Architecture

Server OS Upgrade

kumar493
Path Finder

Hello All ,

We have a splunk server running on CentOS 6 and other server running on RHEL 6 ,  We are planning to upgrade the OS of CentOS from 6 to 7 and RHEL 6 to 7 , IS their will be anything to do with splunk like i need to stop the service during upgrade. Except this is their anything to do ? Or is it will be create any Impact to Splunk ? Should be dere any OS flavour compatibility needs to check before upgrade ?

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi 

there shouldn't be any impact to splunk. But still do the backups before upgrade as usually. And check compability e.g. with kernel versions from splunk known issues and other documentation.

r. Ismo

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi 

there shouldn't be any impact to splunk. But still do the backups before upgrade as usually. And check compability e.g. with kernel versions from splunk known issues and other documentation.

r. Ismo

kumar493
Path Finder

Thank you for response.

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