Upgrading to Splunk 5.0.6 from 4.2.3

[Gvenugopal2711]

Hi

Am upgrading splunk from 4.2.3 to 5.0.6

i have indexers, srch heads and forwarders.

give me your suggestions always welcome

Thanks
GV

[phoffman_splunk]

The documentation; will answer your question: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.6/Installation/HowtoupgradeSplunk

when upgrading to 5.0.x, going from 4.2.x is a supported path. Going to 6.x you have to be on 4.3+.

There is also a list of things to consider and warnings on back ups before you update. The subtopics will answer questions around upgrade order for distributed environments and/or the order of forwarder upgrades in relation to your servers.

[sdaniels]

See this answer, you'll need to upgrade to 4.3 first. Then you could upgrade directly to Splunk 5.0.6 or to our latest release which is Splunk 6.0.

http://answers.splunk.com//answers/105161/upgrading-to-splunk-6

[dgavic]

You will need to upgrade to Splunk 4.3 first and then from 4.3 to 5.