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How co I upgrade splunk 4.3.4 to splunk 5, using tar.gz installer?

melonman
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Hi

I have Splunk 4.3.4 installed using tgz installer on MacOS and Linux.
I want to upgrade them using tar installer to Splunk 5.

Is there automatic upgrade available in tgz installer?
Do I have to manually copy all the configurations in another location and do clean installaion of splunk 5 then copy all configuration back to the splunk 5 installation?

Thank you

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sbrant_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The process to upgrade is easy. The high-level steps are as follows:

  1. Stop Splunk
  2. Backup your Splunk data (just to be safe)
  3. Untar the appropriate version, overwriting the old version (provided your configuration changes were not entered into a "default" directory, your configurations will not be overwritten)
  4. Start Splunk (you will be asked whether you want to upgrade)
  5. Log in and enjoy your upgraded Splunk.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Installation/InstallonLinux

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sbrant_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The process to upgrade is easy. The high-level steps are as follows:

  1. Stop Splunk
  2. Backup your Splunk data (just to be safe)
  3. Untar the appropriate version, overwriting the old version (provided your configuration changes were not entered into a "default" directory, your configurations will not be overwritten)
  4. Start Splunk (you will be asked whether you want to upgrade)
  5. Log in and enjoy your upgraded Splunk.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Installation/InstallonLinux

sbrant_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Keep in mind, in a distributed environment, you should upgrade components in the following order:

  1. indexers
  2. search heads
  3. forwarders
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