Should we reassign orphaned searches to the Splunk admin account?

[Gregski11]

our main Splunk administrator retired and we since disabled his Active Directory account which he used to create and manage hundreds of Splunk searches, now listed as Orphaned under Settings \ All Configurations \ Reassign Knowledge Objects \ Orphaned

we have the option of reassigning these searches to other Domain Accounts belonging to regular Splunk non admin users, or to the built in default Splunk admin account which is a local account on the box with no Domain permissions, so the question is should we do that since there is also this Warning:

Knowledge object ownership changes can have side effects such as giving saved searches access to previously inaccessible data or making previously available knowledge objects unavailable. Review your knowledge objects before you reassign them.

Running Splunk version 9.0.0 on the Microsoft Windows platform 

[richgalloway · Accepted solution]

A better approach, IMO, is to create a service account and reassign the old admin's KO to the new account.  Give the service account the same role(s) as the old admin and there should be no worries about access.

Using a service account means you don't have to go through this exercise again when the new owner leaves.

[Gregski11]

this is verbatim what I said in our staff meeting this morning, great minds, great minds indeed