There are two schools of thought regarding where to keep indexes.conf files on the cluster master:
- Place them in their associated app directory's /local folder along with that app's props, transforms, and other files. This keeps all the files for a given app together, but means you must navigate to each app to change something that might need to be altered across a lot of indexes (such as a frozen storage location, for instance).
- Configure a single indexes.conf file and keep it in /splunk_indexes or a similar app directory dedicated to this purpose. This makes it easier to manage all the indexes in one place. You could do the same with props.conf and transforms.conf, as well. The ...