https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-a-deployment-client-subscribe-to-an-app/m-p/84254#M3037 <P>So you want to remotely edit the serverclass.conf on the deployment-server to add a whitelist item ?<BR /> I am not sure that there is a REST API for it.</P> Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:28:47 GMT yannK 2012-10-09T14:28:47Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-a-deployment-client-subscribe-to-an-app/m-p/84251#M3034 <P>Hi,</P> <P>We are using the deployment server to distribute configuration to universal forwarders. Since we are using chef to install the forwarders, it would be very good if we could add the forwarder to a serverclass from the forwarder host itself, rather than doing this at the deployment server.</P> <P>Any suggestions on doing this. Preferrably, it should be scriptable. With that I mean either a CLI command to run on the forwarder, or some way to do it through the REST API.</P> Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:02:07 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-a-deployment-client-subscribe-to-an-app/m-p/84251#M3034 echalex 2012-10-09T07:02:07Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-a-deployment-client-subscribe-to-an-app/m-p/84252#M3035 <P>there is a way to achieve this. <BR /> The deploymentclient.conf on the client has a parameter <CODE>clientName</CODE> that can be used to replace the <CODE>ip</CODE> and <CODE>hostname</CODE> used to match the whitelist/blacklist in the server serverclass.conf</P> <P>see <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.4/admin/Serverclassconf">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.4/admin/Serverclassconf</A><BR /> and <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.4/admin/Deploymentclientconf">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.4/admin/Deploymentclientconf</A></P> <P>You could use define your classes with roles by example, and use chef to populate the clientName with a concatenation of the classes and hostname.</P> <P>example :</P> <P><CODE>[deployment-client]<BR /> clientName=myhostname-roleA-roleB<BR /> </CODE></P> <P>and on the serverclass</P> <P><CODE>[myclassA]<BR /> whitelist=*roleA*<BR /> [myclassB]<BR /> whitelist=*roleB*<BR /> </CODE></P> Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:07:01 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-a-deployment-client-subscribe-to-an-app/m-p/84252#M3035 yannK 2012-10-09T13:07:01Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-a-deployment-client-subscribe-to-an-app/m-p/84253#M3036 <P>Thanks, but that doesn't really do what I want. (I know about clientName).</P> <P>This solution requires the whitelists to be configured beforehand on the deployment server.</P> Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:24:06 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-a-deployment-client-subscribe-to-an-app/m-p/84253#M3036 echalex 2012-10-09T14:24:06Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-a-deployment-client-subscribe-to-an-app/m-p/84254#M3037 <P>So you want to remotely edit the serverclass.conf on the deployment-server to add a whitelist item ?<BR /> I am not sure that there is a REST API for it.</P> Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:28:47 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-a-deployment-client-subscribe-to-an-app/m-p/84254#M3037 yannK 2012-10-09T14:28:47Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-a-deployment-client-subscribe-to-an-app/m-p/84255#M3038 <P>Yes, that's what I want, more or less. I guess the clientName solution is the closest thing, but it does require some preparation. OTOH, it is a sane approach which provides a kind of "menu" of distributable apps.</P> <P>Do you know if there are any restrictions on length and characters contained?</P> Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:50:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Can-a-deployment-client-subscribe-to-an-app/m-p/84255#M3038 echalex 2012-10-09T15:50:05Z