topic Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available? in Deployment Architecture

Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

twinspop — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:22:28 GMT

I've read through the docs and come up with a simple test config:

st1:

Deployment Server
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/deployment-apps contains testapp, which has defaults/inputs.conf and defaults/outputs.conf
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/serverclass.conf has

[serverClass:testapp] [serverClass:testapp:app:*] filterType = whitelist whitelist.0 = st2 restartSplunkd = true
splunk list deploy-clients shows

Deployment client: ip=172.16.111.129, dns=st2, hostname=st2, mgmt=8089, build=98164, name=st2, id=connection_172.16.111.129_8089_st2_st2_st2, utsname=linux-x86_64 utsname: linux-x86_64 name: st2 ip: 172.16.111.129 hostname: st2 build: 98164 dns: st2 mgmt: 8089 phoneHomeTime: Thu May 19 09:13:22 2011 id: connection_172.16.111.129_8089_st2_st2_st2

st2:

Deployment client
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/deploymentclient.conf contains

[deployment-client]

clientName=st2

[target-broker:deploymentServer]

targetUri = st1:8089

st2 never gets testapp deployed to it. I've had a support ticket open for 8 days on this with no luck. What did I leave out?

Thanks,

jon

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

bwooden — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:52:51 GMT

Try prepending your serverclass.conf with an empty global stanza. Whitelist is the default filter type so you may omit it if you'd like:

[global]

[serverClass:testapp] 

[serverClass:testapp:app:*] 
whitelist.0 = st2 
restartSplunkd = true

Alternate serverclass.conf...

[global]

[serverClass:testClass]
whitelist.0 = st2
restartSplunkd = true

[serverClass:testClass:app:testapp]

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

twinspop — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:31:35 GMT

No change.

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

bwooden — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:35:05 GMT

Regarding st1: Is your app literally in "$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/deploymentapps/testapp" or is it in "$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/deployment-apps/testapp"? The hyphen is important but I thought perhaps that was a typo in your initial question.

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

bwooden — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:35:08 GMT

In the same vein, did you intend to write "$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/serverclass.conf contains" or "$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/deploymentclient.conf contains". It should be the latter and is as important as the hyphen in my above comment.

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

bwooden — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:35:12 GMT

Regarding st2: Is your deploymentclient configuration in "$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/serverclass.conf" or "$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/deploymentclient.conf". That is as equally as important as the above hyphen comment.

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

bwooden — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:40:45 GMT

Actually - I see where you reported st2 was phoning home to st1, which answers my 2nd question.

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

twinspop — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:59:34 GMT

st1: deployment-apps. st2 - yes, big typo there on my part. editing the orig. (as in, post is wrong, install is correct)

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

twinspop — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:04:22 GMT

typos in original post fixed.

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

bwooden — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:14:52 GMT

Did you perform a 'splunk reload deploy-server' after editing serverclass.conf?

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

twinspop — Thu, 19 May 2011 20:01:27 GMT

Yes, and also 'splunk restart'. On both ends.

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

bwooden — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:11:24 GMT

It is interesting you're seeing the deployment client listed as phoning home via deployment server but not seeing it pick up any apps. Do you see any relevant information in splunkd.log?

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

twinspop — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:23:12 GMT

Nothing. Kinda frustrating. I've had a ticket open for 10 days now, with no activity since Monday. There's no step-by-step on the doc site. I guess I'm mentally deficient since others have it working, but it sure seems like I've got the min requirements. Thanks for trying.

Re: Help with Deployment Server and Client? Step-bystep available?

twinspop — Wed, 25 May 2011 00:05:29 GMT

I just noticed that the alternate code you posted above had testClass in the stanza opening. That did the trick. Yahtzee!