topic Re: deployment server in Deployment Architecture

deployment server

splunkpoornima — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:55:35 GMT

hi all,

Assume that we have the deployment seerver with 3 clients named as (A,B,C)

if A client is creating the application and put it in the deplyoment server does the B client can access that???

Re: deployment server

dart — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:03:38 GMT

All applications you wish to deploy from the deployment server need to be in its repositoryLocation which by default is $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/deployment-apps.

Re: deployment server

BobM — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:57:51 GMT

You have to tell the deployment server in its serverclass.conf file which clients should have what app. They don't automatically get an app, only if they match the whitelists.

Also there is no automatic way of copying the app from client A onto the deployment server. You would have to do this manually.

See http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Deploy/Aboutdeploymentserver for more detail.

Re: deployment server

bmacias84 — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:53:33 GMT

The answer is possibly if you defined your server class correctly. Let elaborate a bit by adding deployment client D. Let say A and B are search heads then C and D are Indexers.

If you have apps called dashboard_2,dashboard_1 and ta_indices. The following config will deploy dashboard_1 to all seach heads and dashboard_2 only to A since we are overriding filters at the serverClass:app level. Also notice we are restartign B when dashboard_2 is deployed. ta_indices will only be deployed to only to C and D.

Also you will need to manually move apps to the deployments server repositor.



[global]

repositoryLocation = %splunk%/etc/deployment-apps

restartSplunkd = false

restartSplunkWeb = false

stateOnClient = disabled

filterType = blacklist




################ Search Stanzas #################

[serverClass:search]

restartSplunkd = false

stateOnClient = false

whitelist.0 = A

whitelist.1 = B




[serverClass:search:app:dashboard_1]

stateOnClient = enabled




[serverClass:search:app:dashboard_2]

restartSplunkWeb = true

stateOnClient=enabled

whitelist.0 = A

blacklist.0 = B




################ Indexers Stanzas #################

[serverClass:indexers]

restartSplunkd = false

stateOnClient = false

whitelist.0 = C

whitelist.1 = D




[serverClass:indexers:app:ta_indices] 

stateOnClient = enabled

Note: Overriding one type of filter (whitelist/blacklist) causes the other to be overridden too. If, for example, you override the whitelist, the blacklist will not be inherited from the parent; you must provide one in the stanza.

Definedeploymentclasses

Hope this helps or gets you started. Dont forget to thumbs up or accept answers.

Cheers.