Deployment Architecture

should searchhead pooling or mounted knowledge bundles be writing to shared var directory?

tpsplunk
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I recently enabled searchhead pooling and mounted knowledge bundles using an NFS store mounted to /mnt/shp/ on each of my splunk servers. the {users,apps,system} directories are on /mnt/shp/etc/{users,apps,system}. i've noticed the searchheads have started writing to some "var" directories: /mnt/shp/var/run/splunk/{dispatch,lookup_tmp, rss, scheduler, srtemp}. I don't remember seeing this anywhere in the documentation. is it expected? what is it for? do the search peers (indexers) uses these directories with regards to mounted knowledge bundles?

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

the search heads use this to communicate scheduled jobs and job results with each other. the indexers don't care about this information though.

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

the search heads use this to communicate scheduled jobs and job results with each other. the indexers don't care about this information though.

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