https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Identify-Splunk-instance-role/m-p/501136#M24597 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I need to find a way to identify if a Splunk instance is a an HF/UF/Indexer?Deployer/Deployment Server etc. in an automated way. </P> <P>Is there a way to find out, by looking at file systems, unique process/s, running commands, attributes passed on when splunk service/s start etc. on the system to identify the role of the server in Splunk?</P> <P>Thanks in advance!!!</P> Tue, 19 May 2020 15:20:29 GMT mbasharat 2020-05-19T15:20:29Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Identify-Splunk-instance-role/m-p/501136#M24597 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I need to find a way to identify if a Splunk instance is a an HF/UF/Indexer?Deployer/Deployment Server etc. in an automated way. </P> <P>Is there a way to find out, by looking at file systems, unique process/s, running commands, attributes passed on when splunk service/s start etc. on the system to identify the role of the server in Splunk?</P> <P>Thanks in advance!!!</P> Tue, 19 May 2020 15:20:29 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Identify-Splunk-instance-role/m-p/501136#M24597 mbasharat 2020-05-19T15:20:29Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Identify-Splunk-instance-role/m-p/501137#M24598 <P>You may get what you're looking for from the <CODE>/services/server/roles</CODE> REST endpoint.</P> Tue, 19 May 2020 17:23:11 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Identify-Splunk-instance-role/m-p/501137#M24598 richgalloway 2020-05-19T17:23:11Z