Splunk Enterprise

Upgrade Requirement Clarification

R15
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Hi, 

We're preparing to upgrade SE from 8 to 9 and have a question about this requirement:

For distributed deployments of any kind, confirm that all machines in the indexing tier satisfy the following conditions: 

  • ...
  • ...
  • They do not run their own saved searches

If our indexers are also search heads, would that violate this?

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