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How to upgrade universal forwarders from 4.0 to 6.1.3 for AIX and Windows?

edwardman88
Explorer
‎09-07-2014 08:03 PM

If we would like to upgrade our universal forwarders to 6.1.3, is it ok to keep our current indexer as version 5.0.5.?

Please help to advise how to upgrade universal forwarders from 4.0 to 6.1.3 for AIX and windows.

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ppablo
Retired
‎09-08-2014 03:57 PM

Hi @edwardman88

Are your universal forwarders version 4.0? or 4.3?

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hortonew
Builder
‎09-07-2014 09:34 PM

According to the following document, 6.x forwarders are backwards compatible with 5.x indexers. Just run the forwarder installer to upgrade.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.3/Forwarding/Compatibilitybetweenforwardersandindexe...

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