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How to configure Splunk to store indexed data in Linux server?

vnguyen46
Contributor

Hi,
Migrating to new Splunk Enterprise hardware, I have all core instances up and functioning. Now it comes to the point where I am not sure how to configure Indexers running on Linux OS to properly store the indexed data (hot/cold). I didn't move data or conf files from old to new indexers.

Sample stanza from the indexes.conf file:
[f5_asm]
homePath = volume:primary/f5_asm/db
coldPath = volume:cold/f5_asm/colddb
thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/f5_asm/thaweddb
frozenTimePeriodInSecs = 15768000

df -h on one of the indexers shows:
[splunk@xxxx ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 94G 0 94G 0% /dev
tmpfs 94G 0 94G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 94G 2.7G 92G 3% /run
tmpfs 94G 0 94G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/rhel-root 79G 2.8G 72G 4% /
/dev/sdc2 976M 127M 783M 14% /boot
/dev/sdc1 200M 9.7M 191M 5% /boot/efi
/dev/sdb1 8.7T 84M 8.7T 1% /splunkdata/hot
/dev/sda1 31T 20K 31T 1% /splunkdata/cold
/dev/mapper/rhel-opt 99G 94G 110M 100% /opt (*QUICKLY FILLED UP***We mapped this dir to a new dir /opt/splunk/ with 1TB)
/dev/mapper/rhel-var 99G 1.2G 93G 2% /var
/dev/mapper/rhel-home 50G 64M 47G 1% /home
naspsnfs:/linux_admin 1.4T 686G 697G 50% /apps/admin/share
tmpfs 19G 0 19G 0% /run/user/139454
tmpfs 19G 0 19G 0% /run/user/114464

Is there something not right in this configure and how can I store indexed data to correct file directories?

Thank you,

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1 Solution

adonio
Ultra Champion

you have to define the volumes in indexes.conf
my guess is that this is volume locations:
/dev/sdb1 8.7T 84M 8.7T 1% /splunkdata/hot
/dev/sda1 31T 20K 31T 1% /splunkdata/cold

here is an example from docs:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.1/Admin/indexesconf#indexes.conf.example

volume definitions; prefixed with "volume:"

[volume:hot1]
path = /mnt/fast_disk
maxVolumeDataSizeMB = 100000

[volume:cold1]
path = /mnt/big_disk
# maxVolumeDataSizeMB not specified: no data size limitation on top of the
# existing ones

[volume:cold2]
path = /mnt/big_disk2
maxVolumeDataSizeMB = 1000000

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What is the definition of volume:primary?

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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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vnguyen46
Contributor

On search peer (indexer): ./slave-apps/uth_indexer_volume_indexes/local/indexes.conf
[volume:primary]
path = /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk
maxVolumeDataSizeMB = 1500000

[volume:_splunk_summaries]
path = /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/summaries

~ 100GB

maxVolumeDataSizeMB = 100000

[volume:cold]
path = /opt/splunk/frozen

5TB with some headroom leftover (data summaries, etc)

maxVolumeDataSizeMB = 5200000

Is there any change on the path that I need to make?

Thank you,

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vnguyen46
Contributor

I see this app on the deployment server being pushed to all indexers. On the DS, it's located at:
/opt/splunk/etc/master-apps/uth_indexer_volume_indexes/local/indexes.conf

Assuming that no change can be made on the directory from OS level, how can I change these paths in this indexes.conf file to direct the indexed data to the defined directories?

Thank you,

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adonio
Ultra Champion

you have to define the volumes in indexes.conf
my guess is that this is volume locations:
/dev/sdb1 8.7T 84M 8.7T 1% /splunkdata/hot
/dev/sda1 31T 20K 31T 1% /splunkdata/cold

here is an example from docs:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.1/Admin/indexesconf#indexes.conf.example

volume definitions; prefixed with "volume:"

[volume:hot1]
path = /mnt/fast_disk
maxVolumeDataSizeMB = 100000

[volume:cold1]
path = /mnt/big_disk
# maxVolumeDataSizeMB not specified: no data size limitation on top of the
# existing ones

[volume:cold2]
path = /mnt/big_disk2
maxVolumeDataSizeMB = 1000000
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vnguyen46
Contributor

You pointed to the right direction and I try to configure out how to change paths to match the designated directories. Thank you,

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vnguyen46
Contributor

There is an app to define volume:primary and other stanza like cold/summary that pushed down to the indexers. You can control the log storage and location from that app.

Thank you everyone.

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