Monitoring Splunk

Stop splunk gracefully during system shutdown or reboot - RESOLVED

vikram_m
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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.

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jpalacian
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jpalacian
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vikram_m
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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.

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