topic Re: Setting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs for deploymentclient.conf in Deployment Architecture

Setting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs for deploymentclient.conf

gfriedmann — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:54:04 GMT

I am having trouble getting the deploymentclient.conf setting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs to be followed.

Using a universal forwarder on windows the default checkin seems to be 60 seconds. I tried to specify 5 minutes in /apps/foo/local/deploymentclient.conf , but it still checks in every 60 seconds.

Does anyone know if this must be set in system/local/deploymentclient.conf or if it expected to work if specified in any /etc/app/foo/local/deploymentclient.conf ?

Re: Setting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs for deploymentclient.conf

gfriedmann — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:55:40 GMT

I can use the same syntax to override the setting in system/local/deploymentclient.conf and it works as expected.

but in apps/foo/local/deploymentclient.conf , it still shows up as desired when i type "splunk show config -name deploymentclient", but the checkins continue at 60 second intervals.

Re: Setting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs for deploymentclient.conf

hazekamp — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:39:13 GMT

This could be caused by a permissions issue in your apps/foo/metadata/default.meta. Try adding:

## default.meta
[deploymentclient]
export = system

Re: Setting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs for deploymentclient.conf

gkanapathy — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:11:10 GMT

It has always worked for me in an app folder.

Re: Setting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs for deploymentclient.conf

gfriedmann — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:30:25 GMT

I will try.

Re: Setting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs for deploymentclient.conf

gfriedmann — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:30:44 GMT

How did you verify the checkin interval?

Re: Setting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs for deploymentclient.conf

jbsplunk — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:41:54 GMT

I've seen other similar issues fixed by using this setting.

Re: Setting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs for deploymentclient.conf

Ellen — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:43:26 GMT

There is a known issue (SPL-41174) regarding phonehome messages incorrectly displaying at the default of every 60 seconds despite resetting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs.

See this for more details.