Splunk® Add-on for Windows

Deploy and Use the Splunk Add-on for Windows

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Upgrade the Splunk Add-on for Windows in a distributed deployment

For optimized use of your Splunk license, upgrade the Splunk Add-on for Windows by installing it on your Splunk platform components in the following order:

  1. Search heads
  2. Search head clusters
  3. Nonclustered indexers, Windows heavy forwarders, and intermediate forwarders
  4. Clustered indexers
  5. Deployment servers

Upgrade the Splunk Add-on for Windows on a search head

Follow these steps to install your upgraded version of the Splunk Add-on for Windows on each search head:

  1. Download the upgraded version of the Splunk Add-on for Windows from Splunkbase.
  2. Expand your downloaded file.
  3. On each search head, copy the expanded folder into the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps directory.
  4. Restart each search head.

Upgrade the Splunk Add-on for Windows on a search head cluster

To upgrade an add-on on a search head cluster, remove the previous version and push the upgraded version to the cluster:

  1. Remove the existing Splunk_TA_Windows folder from the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/shcluster/apps directory.
  2. Push this change to the cluster using the splunk apply shcluster-bundle command.
  3. Download the upgraded version of the Splunk Add-on for Windows from Splunkbase.
  4. Expand your downloaded file.
  5. Copy the expanded folder into the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/shcluster/apps directory.
  6. Push the upgraded version to the cluster using the splunk apply shcluster-bundle command.

Upgrade the Splunk Add-on for Windows on nonclustered indexers, Windows heavy forwarders, and intermediate forwarders

Complete the following steps to upgrade these components:

  1. Download the upgraded version of the Splunk Add-on for Windows from Splunkbase.
  2. Expand your downloaded file to a temporary location.
  3. Remove the following files:
    1. <app>/bin
    2. <app>/default/eventgen.conf
    3. <app>/default/inputs.conf
    4. <app>/default/wmi.conf
    5. <app>/default/indexes.conf
  4. Copy the expanded Splunk_TA_Windows folder to the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps directory.

Upgrade the Splunk Add-on for Windows on an indexer cluster

Follow these steps to upgrade the Splunk add-on for Windows on each of your indexer clusters:

  1. Download the upgraded version of the Splunk Add-on for Windows from Splunkbase.
  2. Expand your downloaded file.
  3. Review the use of index in all inputs associated with the Splunk Add-on for Windows and identify all indexes
  4. Ensure each index has been defined in indexes.conf in the appropriate location under $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/master_apps
  5. Copy the expanded Splunk_TA_Windows folder to the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/master_apps directory on the cluster master.
  6. Apply the cluster bundle

Upgrade the Splunk Add-on for Windows using a deployment server

You can use a deployment server to upgrade the Splunk Add-on for Windows in your distributed deployment:

  1. Download the upgraded version of the Splunk Add-on for Windows from Splunkbase.
  2. Expand your downloaded file.
  3. Copy the expanded Splunk_TA_Windows folder to the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/deployment-apps directory.
  4. Restart the deployment server.
Last modified on 14 November, 2018
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Add-on for Windows: 5.0.1


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