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?
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nickhills
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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

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