https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Migrate-client-to-another-deployment-server/m-p/113586#M4309 <P>There are 2 ways:</P> <P>BEST: Create 2 different apps for the 2 versions of deploymentclient.conf: DCOLD and DCNEW. When you need apps to change DS, just deploy the appropriate app to the forwarders by modifying the serverclass.</P> <P>ALTERNATE: You can control the forwarder DCs from the DS by "agent name" as well as by "hostname" and "IP Address"; read about it here:<BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Updating/Filterclients">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Updating/Filterclients</A><BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Updating/Configuredeploymentclients#Set_a_client_name">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Updating/Configuredeploymentclients#Set_a_client_name</A></P> Tue, 19 May 2015 13:21:00 GMT woodcock 2015-05-19T13:21:00Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Migrate-client-to-another-deployment-server/m-p/113585#M4308 <P>I'm going to migrate some clients from one deployment server to a new one. Both are *nix and I can't change DNS names. Can you please tell me how I can do this?</P> Tue, 19 May 2015 10:21:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Migrate-client-to-another-deployment-server/m-p/113585#M4308 ArsenyKapralov 2015-05-19T10:21:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Migrate-client-to-another-deployment-server/m-p/113586#M4309 <P>There are 2 ways:</P> <P>BEST: Create 2 different apps for the 2 versions of deploymentclient.conf: DCOLD and DCNEW. When you need apps to change DS, just deploy the appropriate app to the forwarders by modifying the serverclass.</P> <P>ALTERNATE: You can control the forwarder DCs from the DS by "agent name" as well as by "hostname" and "IP Address"; read about it here:<BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Updating/Filterclients">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Updating/Filterclients</A><BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Updating/Configuredeploymentclients#Set_a_client_name">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Updating/Configuredeploymentclients#Set_a_client_name</A></P> Tue, 19 May 2015 13:21:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Migrate-client-to-another-deployment-server/m-p/113586#M4309 woodcock 2015-05-19T13:21:00Z