topic Re: splunk Deployment server in Deployment Architecture

splunk Deployment server

kholleran — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:31:48 GMT

When we first rolled out Splunk, the deployment server was not used. Its been a while now & I want to move to a deployment server architecture. My question is:

Should I remove everything from etc/system/local that was put on the individual instances of Splunk or can I leave that and will the deployment apps override those?

Thanks.

Kevin

Re: splunk Deployment server

tskinnerivsec — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:10:52 GMT

deployment apps will not over write the settings in etc/system/local. You may find that you have some settings configured in etc/system/local that make more sense managing with a deployed application. If that is the case, you would have to comment out the setting in etc/system/local so that the application would control the setting. I would start out deploying apps one at a time to migrate system/local settings that make sense. Then most of the apps you deploy can contain new inputs or other functionallity.

Re: splunk Deployment server

kholleran — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:45:37 GMT

That's what I was figuring but I wanted to make sure. I have basically migrated all settings for inputs/outputs/transforms/etc from conf files in /etc/system/local to their own apps to be managed, so its a matter of removing these from the conf files & syncing with the deployment server.

Thanks for your help.