Error Upgrading Splunk 6.1 to 6.3.1

Just ran into a problem tonight while upgrading my Splunk instance from 6.1 to 6.3.1. It had been offline for quite a while (it died and it’s just a demo system of mine) so it hadn’t been upgraded in a while. While following the phenomenal upgrade proc …

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Extend Volume on Amazon EC2 Instance

This one is pretty straightforward, but it is a nice little one that I might have to come back to at some point.  There is a really simple workflow for this: 1. Shutdown the EC2 instance 2. Create a snapshot of the volume that you want to expand 3. Cre …

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