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Monitoring Console migration - Hardware Refresh - Distributed Deployment

Javier_Sanz
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi,

Is there any official documentation or best practice recommendation on how to migrate a MC to a new server for a distributed deployment in 8.2?

Thanks

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The MC is just a search head so follow the instructions for migrating a SH to new hardware at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.4/Installation/MigrateaSplunkinstance

In a nutshell: stop MC, copy $SPLUNK_HOME to new server, install Splunk on the new SH, start Splunk.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

I doubt it but just set it up from scratch.  It only takes a few mintues.

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