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Steps to upgrade an indexer clustering environment from Splunk 6.1.5 to 6.1.8?

rbal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

We need to upgrade an indexer clustering environment from 6.1.5 to 6.1.8 and we have aCluster Master, 2 Cluster Peers, Three Search Heads, and a Deployment Server. Please provide high level steps.

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rbal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Here are the steps that shoudl help upgrade a Clustered environment from 6.1.5 to 6.1.8.

Step 1: Take the backup ($SPLUNK_HOME) of all Splunk components that is Master node, peers node (Indexer 01 and Indexer 02), search heads (1,2,3) and deployment server. Refer http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.4/Installation/HowtoupgradeSplunk

Step 2: As you are upgrading from 6.1.5 to 6.1.8 (Upgrade to a new maintenance release) you need to follow below steps as suggested in doc (http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.8/Indexer/Upgradeacluster)

2.0) SHUTDOWN CLUSTER MASTER*
2.1: Upgrade the master node, before running installer stop Splunk (./splunk stop).
(Note: other Splunk components can continue to run i.e. peers node, search heads and deployment server)

2.1.1) START THE CLUSTER MASTER**
2.2: Put the master into maintenance mode with below command
./ splunk enable maintenance-mode

2.3: check is master is in maintenance which below command
./ splunk show maintenance-mode (A returned value of 1 indicates that maintenance mode is on. 0 indicates that maintenance mode is off.)

2.4.0 ) **SHUT DOWN ONE PEER at a Time and finish upgrade on it started it after that and move to 2nd Peer **

2.4 : Stop the peer nodes using ./splunk stop before running installer (repeat same process for other peers as well)

2.5: Upgrade the search heads, before that you need to stop splunk service from all SH01,02 and 03 ? or only on particular box where you plan to ruin install? (Process is one by one upgrade or can we do concurrently?)

2.6: After successful upgrade of all component need to disable the maintain mode with below command ./splunk disable maintenance-mode (For cross verify we can check ./splunk show maintenance-mode)

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rbal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Here are the steps that shoudl help upgrade a Clustered environment from 6.1.5 to 6.1.8.

Step 1: Take the backup ($SPLUNK_HOME) of all Splunk components that is Master node, peers node (Indexer 01 and Indexer 02), search heads (1,2,3) and deployment server. Refer http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.4/Installation/HowtoupgradeSplunk

Step 2: As you are upgrading from 6.1.5 to 6.1.8 (Upgrade to a new maintenance release) you need to follow below steps as suggested in doc (http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.8/Indexer/Upgradeacluster)

2.0) SHUTDOWN CLUSTER MASTER*
2.1: Upgrade the master node, before running installer stop Splunk (./splunk stop).
(Note: other Splunk components can continue to run i.e. peers node, search heads and deployment server)

2.1.1) START THE CLUSTER MASTER**
2.2: Put the master into maintenance mode with below command
./ splunk enable maintenance-mode

2.3: check is master is in maintenance which below command
./ splunk show maintenance-mode (A returned value of 1 indicates that maintenance mode is on. 0 indicates that maintenance mode is off.)

2.4.0 ) **SHUT DOWN ONE PEER at a Time and finish upgrade on it started it after that and move to 2nd Peer **

2.4 : Stop the peer nodes using ./splunk stop before running installer (repeat same process for other peers as well)

2.5: Upgrade the search heads, before that you need to stop splunk service from all SH01,02 and 03 ? or only on particular box where you plan to ruin install? (Process is one by one upgrade or can we do concurrently?)

2.6: After successful upgrade of all component need to disable the maintain mode with below command ./splunk disable maintenance-mode (For cross verify we can check ./splunk show maintenance-mode)

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