March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
576 pages
13h 29m
English
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Directory structure of an index
Each index occupies a set of directories on the disk. By default, these directories live in $SPLUNK_DB, which, by default, is located in $SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk.
Look at the following stanza for the main index:
[main] homePath = $SPLUNK_DB/defaultdb/db coldPath = $SPLUNK_DB/defaultdb/colddb thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/defaultdb/thaweddb maxHotIdleSecs = 86400 maxHotBuckets = 10 maxDataSize = auto_high_volume
If our Splunk installation lives at /opt/splunk, the index main is rooted at the path /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/defaultdb.
To change your storage location, either modify the value of SPLUNK_DB in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/splunk-launch.conf or set absolute paths in indexes.conf.
splunk-launch.conf cannot be controlled ...
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