Deployment Architecture

Splunk server Patching

Prakash493
Communicator

Hi , My infra team is doing the Vulnerability patching on linux servers as we have 6 indexers clustered , we are doing patching on 3 indexers and 3 search heads clustered. is their anything that i need to do except validating the servers after patching ? as they are doing on 3 indexers i am thinking to enable maintenance mode ?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yes, use maintenance mode. And run splunk offline on each indexer before it is patched.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yes, use maintenance mode. And run splunk offline on each indexer before it is patched.

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Prakash493
Communicator

is it any problem if i use ./splunk stop command and after patching i will start the service , If i use splunk offline command what it will do and once patching finished how can i start splunk is by using ./splunk start ?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

splunk offline is better. See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/Indexer/Takeapeeroffline.

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Prakash493
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Awesome thanks

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