Stop splunk gracefully during system shutdown or reboot - RESOLVED

[vikram_m]

As the indexers and search heads are in cluster and on Unix OS, whenever there is a proper shutdown or reboot of servers is there any command or script which can tell Unix to use bin/splunk stop command.

For now I think Unix uses kill -9 before kernel is shutdown so I think there might be some alternative to stop Splunk gracefully.

[jpalacian · Accepted solution]

Hi!

Have you configured boot-start in your boxes?
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/Admin/ConfigureSplunktostartatboottime

J.

[vikram_m]

Thanks for your reply J. I found in the docs that firing the reboot or shutdown command Splunk stops itself gracefully.

Also I found command to stop and start it with particular user name. Thanks for the link and clearing my doubts.