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Should we be adding a restart flag to the Splunk "Patching app"?

briancronrath
Contributor

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/ReleaseNotes/FixDatetimexml2020

I noticed this app didn't have the restart flag, should we be adding this in order to restart all our universal forwarders?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Restarting is not necessary.

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saramamurthy_sp
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

As mentioned in the document, you do not need the restart of the Splunk services once the patch is done.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/ReleaseNotes/FixDatetimexml2020#Download_and_depl...

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Restarting is not necessary.

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