topic Re: Deployment Server Separate from Heavy Forwarder in Deployment Architecture

Deployment Server Separate from Heavy Forwarder

damo66a — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:54:38 GMT

Hi everyone,

Our deployment consists of an on prem deployment server, on prem heavy forwarder and Splunk Cloud.

Is there a way of getting our separate Heavy Forwarder to recognise our deployment server, specifically so we can configure file inputs on the heavy forwarder using the deployment clients.

I know they can be one in the same but we chose to have separate servers for operational reasons. Appreciate anyone's view/help

Re: Deployment Server Separate from Heavy Forwarder

aasabatini — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:56:51 GMT

Hi @damo66a

yes, you can manage your HF from the DS, you need to create a dedicate serverclass for the HF and you can push all the configurations.

please check the documentation

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.3/Admin/Serverclassconf

Re: Deployment Server Separate from Heavy Forwarder

damo66a — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 11:05:47 GMT

thanks for the suggestion.

ive looked over that link and cant see how it tells me to do that. my understanding of a deployment client is that you install the UF on the destination machine (auto configured by script) and it "dials home" to the deployment server, then we add it to a server class as needed.

As ive already configured this server as a Heavy Forwarder, how would I go about adding it to a server class on the deployment server?

Also, My deployment server is a windows based machine, the heavy forwarder is linux based - not sure if that would have any baring at all.

Re: Deployment Server Separate from Heavy Forwarder

aasabatini — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 11:19:26 GMT

Hi @damo66a

the deployment server can manage any splunk instance

anyway to configure the deployment server go on your HF and run this two comands

splunk set deploy-poll <IP_address/hostname>:<management_port> splunk restart

next step, go on your deployment server and check if is present your HF

next step create a new serverclass

on your new serverclass add client and apps

Re: Deployment Server Separate from Heavy Forwarder

damo66a — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 12:14:46 GMT

that did it. thanks very much for your help