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Refresh props.conf delay

reed_kelly
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When I modify props.conf in an app on the Search Head, there is usually a delay (20 minutes?) before those changes become effective.
I also keep hitting the URL:

https://server:8000/en-US/debug/refresh

but it still takes a while before the changes are seen.

We have a fairly complex setup with Search heads and indexers, etc..., so I can imagine some delay. Does anyone know if this is normal, and if there is a way to speed this up? Alternatively, is there a way to see when the changes are effective without having to test it directly with a search?

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Drainy
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hmm, it sounds like the replication bundles are taking a while to get sent out, usually the case if you have a large amount of search time objects. A solution might be to try and mount your knowledge objects and instead of the search head distributing them, the peers can mount them so all changes take effect straight away.
From 4.3 onwards the search time extractions in props will be reloaded each time you run a new search, this is done as splunk forks off another splunkd process to handle the search.

Have a look at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/admin/Distsearchconf and the part about mounting replication bundles for config details on how to configure. Plus; http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Deploy/Mounttheknowledgebundle

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Drainy
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hmm, it sounds like the replication bundles are taking a while to get sent out, usually the case if you have a large amount of search time objects. A solution might be to try and mount your knowledge objects and instead of the search head distributing them, the peers can mount them so all changes take effect straight away.
From 4.3 onwards the search time extractions in props will be reloaded each time you run a new search, this is done as splunk forks off another splunkd process to handle the search.

Have a look at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/admin/Distsearchconf and the part about mounting replication bundles for config details on how to configure. Plus; http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Deploy/Mounttheknowledgebundle

reed_kelly
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Thanks Drainy. We are running 4.3.1 on the search heads, but we will have to look at mounted bundles.

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