Upgrade

Upgrade to the latest released version of the Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP. See "Platform and hardware requirements" in this manual for supported Splunk Enterprise versions for this release. See "How to upgrade Splunk Enterprise" to upgrade to a new version of Splunk Enterprise.

Reasons to Upgrade to 2.0.3

This maintenance release addresses many of the known issues in the Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP. For a list of fixed issues, see "Fixed issues" in the Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP Release Notes.

Backup your existing deployment

Before you upgrade, backup your existing Splunk Enterprise deployment. See "Back up configuration information" in the Admin Manual and "Back up indexed data" in the Managing Indexers and Clusters Manual.

Upgrade a distributed deployment

To upgrade your distributed Splunk Enterprise environment, see "Upgrade your distributed environment" in the Distributed Deployment Manual.

Upgrade to Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP 2.0.3

Download the Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP package, from Splunkbase to a location in your environment.

Upgrade Splunk search heads

1. Stop the distributed collection scheduler, if is running. Do this by stopping Splunk Enterprise on the search head, or stop the scheduler in the Collection configuration page of the Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP.

2. Get the file splunk-app-for-netapp-data-ontap_<number>.zip and put it in $SPLUNK_HOME.

3. In $SPLUNK_HOME unzip the app package.

unzip splunk-app-for-netapp-data-ontap_<number>.zip

4. Verify that you copied all of the apps and the sub directories correctly to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps.

SA-Hydra/…

SA-Utils/…

splunk_app_netapp/…

Splunk_TA_ontap/…

5. Restart Splunk Enterprise in each of the locations where you installed the Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP, or restart the scheduler in the Collection configuration page of the app. For both Windows and Unix instructions, see "Start and stop Spunk" in the Splunk Admin Manual.

Upgrade Splunk indexers

1. Stop Splunk Enterprise on the indexer.

2. Get the following files from the app download package, splunk-app-for-netapp-data-ontap_<number>.zip and install them in $SPLUNK_HOME on each indexer.

SA-Utils/…

SA-Hydra/…

Splunk_TA_ontap/…

3. Start Splunk Enterprise.

Upgrade the data collection node

1. Stop Splunk Enterprise on the data collection node.

2. On the data collection node, copy the following components from splunk-app-for-netapp-data-ontap_<number>.zip download package and put them in the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps folder on the data collection node.

• SA-Utils
• SA-Hydra
• Splunk_TA_ontap

3. Start Splunk Enterprise.

Validate your installation

Check that you correctly installed the Splunk App for NetApp Data ONTAP and that you have data coming into the app. See "Log in and get started" in this manual.