Splunk Enterprise Security

Shutdown procedure

kevinlarkin
New Member

Need to power off spunk server tonight for emergency power maintenance. Does anyone know where i can get the shutdown procedure?

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lkutch_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/Latest/Admin/StartSplunk

Stop Splunk Enterprise
To shut down Splunk Enterprise, run this command:

splunk stop

To stop splunkd and Splunk Web individually, type:

splunk stop splunkd

or

(in legacy mode only) # splunk stop splunkweb

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

It depends on what functional roles it has and what your clustering configurations are.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

splunk stop

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