Indexer almost out of storage space

[kmcconnell]

I'm about to run out of room on one of our indexers. We have two indexers setup and we are doing distributed indexing. I had an additional 2TB drive added to the one indexer, but I’m wondering if we need to add an additional drive to the other indexer. My plan was to modify the indexes.conf and start sending the two largest indexes cold storage to the new drive (like below). I assume I would copy the “index_to_change\colddb” folder structure to the new drive also. If I’m missing something or going about this wrong, please let me know. I’m pretty new at Splunk and I’m still learning.

[volume:primary]
path = D:\splunkdata
maxVolumeDataSizeMB = 1990000

[volume:cold]
path = E:\splunkdata
maxVolumeDataSizeMB = 1990000

[index_to_change]
homePath = volume:primary/defaultdb/db
coldPath = volume:cold/defaultdb/colddb

[_d_ · Accepted solution]

That should work but it is advisable that all indexers (2 in your case) are configured identically.