Monitoring Splunk

Moving the _audit index

peter_gianusso
Communicator

I need to move just the _audit index from the c drive to a d drive on a windows server.

How do I do that? I found an article on pre-6.0 but can't find anything for Splunk 6.0

Tags (2)
0 Karma
1 Solution

jtrucks
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

create $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/indexes.conf and add these lines:

[_audit]
homePath   = $SPLUNK_DB/audit/db
coldPath   = $SPLUNK_DB/audit/colddb
thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/audit/thaweddb
tstatsHomePath = volume:_splunk_summaries/audit/datamodel_summary

Change the paths as you wish. Stop splunk, copy/move the files to the new location, start splunk.

--
Jesse Trucks
Minister of Magic

View solution in original post

jtrucks
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

create $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/indexes.conf and add these lines:

[_audit]
homePath   = $SPLUNK_DB/audit/db
coldPath   = $SPLUNK_DB/audit/colddb
thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/audit/thaweddb
tstatsHomePath = volume:_splunk_summaries/audit/datamodel_summary

Change the paths as you wish. Stop splunk, copy/move the files to the new location, start splunk.

--
Jesse Trucks
Minister of Magic
Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Splunk Observability for AI

Don’t miss out on an exciting Tech Talk on Splunk Observability for AI! Discover how Splunk’s agentic AI ...

[Puzzles] Solve, Learn, Repeat: Dereferencing XML to Fixed-length events

This challenge was first posted on Slack #puzzles channelFor a previous puzzle, I needed a set of fixed-length ...

Stay Connected: Your Guide to December Tech Talks, Office Hours, and Webinars!

What are Community Office Hours? Community Office Hours is an interactive 60-minute Zoom series where ...