How to upgrade Splunk 6.0.3 to a newer version running on Amazon AMI Linux?

[abovebeyond]

Hey, we run Splunk enterprise on Amazon AMI Linux

How can we upgrade splunk to a newer version ?

thanks

[Sourabhv05 · Accepted solution]

To upgrade your Splunk follow the below steps

1. Stop current Splunk instance.
2. Copy splunk latest version splunk-6.2-Linux-x86_64.gz ( Its not exact package name) to the same directory (opt/splunk/).
3. run command tar -xzvf splunk-6.2-Linux-x86_64.gz --strip-path=1

Refer below link for your refrence
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.1/installation/Upgradeto6.2onUNIX

Accept and vote answer if it helps!!!

[abovebeyond]

Thanks 🙂

[Sourabhv05]

Which version of Splunk and on which Operating system your Splunk is running currently ?

Also is your Splunk deployed in standalone environment or distributed ?

[abovebeyond]

hey

splunk version : 6.0.3

its in Amazon AMI linux :
splunk-6.0.3-204106-Linux-x86_64-manifest (i think its RH or centos)

its one server with few universal-forwarders

Thanks