Is there a removal tool to uninstall Splunk client?

[Jason007]

We have an environment of mixed client instances, is there a removal tool to uninstall the splunk client and remove any registry entries before installing the latest splunk client.

[gcusello]

Hi @Jason007,

If you haven't any issue on the past installation, there's no reason to uninstall a Splunk universal Forwarder before updating.

Instead it's better to maintain all the configuration of the old version.

but, if you want uninstall the packet, you can remove the packet using the Windows features or deleting the folder on Linux (in this case remember to stop the service before!).

Ciao.

Giuseppe 

[isoutamo]

Hi

as @gcusello said you shouldn’t uninstall old client first and then install anew one! The correct way is just update the old version over old. But you should follow the instructions which told from - to versions you must use. E.g you cannot update from 7.3 to 9.0.5, you must use some middle versions between those. One reason for that is local fishbucket db. This is keeping track for all inputs which you have on your client node. If you remove the installation, then you remove also that db and the result will be duplicated log entries as a new UF version start to collect all logs from beginning of files you have on that node.

r. Ismo