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How to upgrade universal forwarders from 4.0 to 6.1.3 for AIX and Windows?

edwardman88
Explorer

If we would like to upgrade our universal forwarders to 6.1.3, is it ok to keep our current indexer as version 5.0.5.?

Please help to advise how to upgrade universal forwarders from 4.0 to 6.1.3 for AIX and windows.

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ppablo
Retired

Hi @edwardman88

Are your universal forwarders version 4.0? or 4.3?

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hortonew
Builder

According to the following document, 6.x forwarders are backwards compatible with 5.x indexers. Just run the forwarder installer to upgrade.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.3/Forwarding/Compatibilitybetweenforwardersandindexe...

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