Same issue here few weeks ago, but already solved. After spending considerable time on this issue, as I believe there is a documentation gap. To maintain a consistent documentation path within the Splunk 9.4.1 upgrade process, I suggested adding the following link as a reference for Deployment Server: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.4.1/Updating/Upgradepre-9.2deploymentservers This should be included under the READTHISFIRST section for versions later than 9.2: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.4.1/Installation/AboutupgradingREADTHISFIRST   ... View more