https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/enabling-deployment-monitor/m-p/94879#M22719 <P>I'll answer my own question. This turned out to be permissioning on the files/directories inside the apps/SplunkDeploymentMonitor. just do a chmod -R u+w SplunkDeploymentMonitor/</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:58:26 GMT mmattek 2011-10-19T19:58:26Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/enabling-deployment-monitor/m-p/94878#M22718 <P>when I try to enable this app i get:</P> <OL> <LI>Error occurred attempting to enable SplunkDeploymentMonitor: In handler 'localapps': Cannot update application info: /nobody/SplunkDeploymentMonitor/app/install/state = enabled: Data could not be written: /nobody/SplunkDeploymentMonitor/app/install/state: enabled.</LI> </OL> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:17:04 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/enabling-deployment-monitor/m-p/94878#M22718 mmattek 2011-10-19T19:17:04Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/enabling-deployment-monitor/m-p/94879#M22719 <P>I'll answer my own question. This turned out to be permissioning on the files/directories inside the apps/SplunkDeploymentMonitor. just do a chmod -R u+w SplunkDeploymentMonitor/</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:58:26 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/enabling-deployment-monitor/m-p/94879#M22719 mmattek 2011-10-19T19:58:26Z