Hi, I have a question related to defining volumes especially the coldvolume in our case. I want to point the coldvolume to a unique location on network attached storage. Example we have 3 indexers with the following hostnames idx01 idx02 idx03 say we have a local mount point on every indexer which points to the NAS mynas /mnt/coldvolume -> nfs://mynas Option 1 Can I then define a volume in /etc/system/local/indexes.conf on every indexer. On idx01: [volume:coldvolume] path = /mnt/coldvolume/idx01/ On idx02 [volume:coldvolume] path = /mnt/coldvolume/idx02/ On idx03 [volume:coldvolume] path = /mnt/coldvolume/idx03/ The indexes that are then distributed to all indexers in this cluster are of the format [myniceindex] coldPath = volume:coldvolume/myniceindex/colddb Option 2 As an alternative I can also mount to the subfolders on the NAS by modifying /etc/fstab and letting the /mnt/coldvolume point to nfs://mynas/idx{01,02,03} I can then distribute the volume definition to all 3 indexers like this [volume:coldvolume] path = /mnt/coldvolume/ Question: Is option 1 a valid / supported configuration for a Splunk indexer cluster? Question: Or is option 2 the best practice? Regards Rob van de Voort
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