Deployment Architecture

When upgrading the Splunk deployment, can we upgrade replicated indexers first in maintenance mode?

ankithreddy777
Contributor

I have a questions regarding the upgrade

  1. Can we upgrade the replicated indexers first in maintenance mode?
  2. Can we upgrade the deployment server independently of the indexers to save time?
0 Karma

nickhills
Ultra Champion

yes (as long as you do the cluster master first, and then set maint mode)
and
yes

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Indexer/Upgradeacluster

If my comment helps, please give it a thumbs up!
Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Extending Observability Content to Splunk Cloud

Watch Now!   In this Extending Observability Content to Splunk Cloud Tech Talk, you'll see how to leverage ...

More Control Over Your Monitoring Costs with Archived Metrics!

What if there was a way you could keep all the metrics data you need while saving on storage costs?This is now ...

New in Observability Cloud - Explicit Bucket Histograms

Splunk introduces native support for histograms as a metric data type within Observability Cloud with Explicit ...