Splunk® Enterprise

Managing Indexers and Clusters of Indexers

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Manager node configuration overview

You initially configure the manager node when you enable it, as described in "Enable the managernode". This is usually all the configuration the manager node needs.

Change the configuration

If you need to edit the configuration, you have these choices:

After you change the manager node configuration, you must restart the manager for the changes to take effect.

Important: The manager node has the sole function of managing the other cluster nodes. Do not use it to index external data or to search the cluster.

Changes that require caution

Be careful when making changes to these settings:

  • Replication factor and search factor. It is inadvisable to increase either of these settings after your indexer cluster contains significant amounts of data. This will kick off a great deal of bucket activity, affecting the cluster's performance adversely while bucket copies are being created or made searchable.
  • Heartbeat timeout. Do not change the heartbeat_timeout attribute from its default value of 60 (seconds) unless instructed to do so by Splunk Support. In particular, do not decrease it. This can overload the peers.

Configure a stand-by manager node

To prepare for manager node failure, configure a stand-by manager node that can take over if the current manager goes down. See "Replace the manager node on the indexer cluster".

Configure a multisite manager node

A multisite manager node has a number of configuration differences and additions, compared to a basic, single-site cluster. See "Configure multisite indexer clusters with server.conf".

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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 8.1.8, 8.1.9, 8.1.10, 8.1.11, 8.1.12, 8.1.13, 8.1.14, 8.2.0, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.2.4, 8.2.5, 8.2.6, 8.2.7, 8.2.8, 8.2.9, 8.2.10, 8.2.11, 8.2.12, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 9.0.6, 9.0.7, 9.0.8, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.2.0


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