Installation

Splunk 6 indexing

kmattern
Builder

I just upgraded to Splunk 6.0.2. Why did it override all of my indexes. In 5.0.4 I specified a separate index for each of my major sourcetypes. But Splunk 6 blithely decided to dump everything into main. What gives?

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kmattern
Builder

Sigh... The forwarder was sending the log to multiple indexers and specifying the index as main. I'll have to find another way to get the data consumed.

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bosburn_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Did you put your configuration files in the default directory vs local?

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bosburn_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

It really shouldn't of overrided the configurations if you have things in local.

Do you have enterprise support? If so, can you get a ticket opened up and let me know the ticket number..

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kmattern
Builder

I always use local. When I set up 5.0.4 six months ago I defined all my indexes then. If I search the original indexes for events prior to the upgrade, everything is there.

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