Splunk Enterprise

Splunk DS & HF upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1

tv00638481
Explorer

Hi,

I’m newly upgrading the platform. Need help

we have a splunk cloud instance upgrade 9.1.however are in due to upgrade Deployment Server and Heavy forwarders followed by UF’s.

could your please anyone kindly let me know the stepwise process to upgrade the deployment server from 9.0.5 to 9.1 and similarly for Heavy Forwarder .

which are rpm packages to choose for both DS and HF ‘s.

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SanjayReddy
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @tv00638481 

following post help to understand stpes need to followed befroe upgrade. 

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/What-s-the-order-of-operations-for-upgrading-Splunk-Ent... 

in this case
 you need to upgrade first deploymentserver then HF  and UF.

compatbility between Splunk cloud and forwaders 

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/9.1.2312/Service/SplunkCloudservice#Supported_forw... 

 

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Regards,
Sanjay Reddy

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deepakc
Builder

Hi

Follow all the steps and plan your upgrade from the below link, there many steps and processes to follow.

Most important always Read the README for the version you upgrading.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.1/Installation/HowtoupgradeSplunk

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