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Managing Indexers and Clusters of Indexers

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Determine which indexes.conf changes require restart

Some changes to indexes.conf require that you restart the indexer for the changes to take effect:

  • Changing any of these attributes: rawChunkSizeBytes, minRawFileSyncSecs, syncMeta, maxConcurrentOptimizes, coldToFrozenDir, coldtoFrozenScript
  • Changing any of these attributes for existing indexes: repFactor, homePath, coldPath, thawedPath, bloomHomePath, summaryHomePath, tstatsHomePath
  • Adding or removing a volume
  • Enabling or disabling an index with data
  • Removing an index

You do not need to restart the indexer if you only make these changes:

  • Adding new index stanzas
  • Changing any attributes not listed as requiring restart
  • Enabling or disabling an index with no data
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4, 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.3.7, 6.3.8, 6.3.9, 6.3.10, 6.3.11, 6.3.12, 6.3.13, 6.3.14, 6.4.0, 6.4.1, 6.4.2, 6.4.3, 6.4.4, 6.4.5, 6.4.6, 6.4.7, 6.4.8, 6.4.9, 6.4.10, 6.4.11

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