Splunk Enterprise Security

reboot splunk instance after OS patching

rashid47010
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We patch our OS last week and OS admin advise us to reboto the Indexers once. we have multistie scenerios. (6+6).

Please suggest a best method to reboot OS without effecting index searching capability.

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lakshman239
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I would suggest you perform the proposed activity on a test server [ can be single instance, if you don't have a cluster setup] which same OS level patches/versions and same version of splunk instance as prod. This can prove that the reboot of the OS works fine and the splunk starts up clean.
- Ensure your instances are setup boot enable splunk
- watch for any errors in splunkd.logs and python logs related to OS and splunk apps/add-ons on your instance
- If you are happy, you can select a quite period [ out of office hours, when the load and incoming data is minimal], put the master in maintenance mode, restart/reboot the cluster master and ensure it comes up and all peer nodes connect successfully.
- take out each search peer on to a maintenance mode or offline (ensure they are are in maintenance mode) and reboot and re-enable them
- between each peer node reboot, ensure the nodes

You may also want to refer to https://answers.splunk.com/answers/352976/what-is-the-correct-procedure-to-patch-the-os-and.html
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.0/Indexer/Upgradeacluster#Upgrade_to_a_maintenance_...

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lakshman239
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I would suggest you perform the proposed activity on a test server [ can be single instance, if you don't have a cluster setup] which same OS level patches/versions and same version of splunk instance as prod. This can prove that the reboot of the OS works fine and the splunk starts up clean.
- Ensure your instances are setup boot enable splunk
- watch for any errors in splunkd.logs and python logs related to OS and splunk apps/add-ons on your instance
- If you are happy, you can select a quite period [ out of office hours, when the load and incoming data is minimal], put the master in maintenance mode, restart/reboot the cluster master and ensure it comes up and all peer nodes connect successfully.
- take out each search peer on to a maintenance mode or offline (ensure they are are in maintenance mode) and reboot and re-enable them
- between each peer node reboot, ensure the nodes

You may also want to refer to https://answers.splunk.com/answers/352976/what-is-the-correct-procedure-to-patch-the-os-and.html
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.0/Indexer/Upgradeacluster#Upgrade_to_a_maintenance_...

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