https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-it-best-practice-to-use-a-Deployment-Server-to-deploy/m-p/262826#M50442 <P>Yes, if you're not using index clustering, it would be appropriate to use the Deployment Server to manage your configurations between two Indexers and a Search Head.</P> Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:02:28 GMT jchampagne_splu 2016-02-02T18:02:28Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-it-best-practice-to-use-a-Deployment-Server-to-deploy/m-p/262825#M50441 <P>Dear All,</P> <P>I have a Search Head and Two non-clustered indexers (search peers) and I am architecting the system to include a Deployment Server and several Forwarders.</P> <P>I know that you must not use Deployment Server to deploy apps and configurations to clustered indexers (that is what the indexer cluster master is for), but what about non-clustered indexers (search peers)? Is it Best Practice to use the Deployment Server to deploy configurations to my non-clustered indexers or not?</P> <P>Thanks in advance.</P> <P>BlueSocket</P> Tue, 02 Feb 2016 15:32:59 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-it-best-practice-to-use-a-Deployment-Server-to-deploy/m-p/262825#M50441 BlueSocket 2016-02-02T15:32:59Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-it-best-practice-to-use-a-Deployment-Server-to-deploy/m-p/262826#M50442 <P>Yes, if you're not using index clustering, it would be appropriate to use the Deployment Server to manage your configurations between two Indexers and a Search Head.</P> Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:02:28 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-it-best-practice-to-use-a-Deployment-Server-to-deploy/m-p/262826#M50442 jchampagne_splu 2016-02-02T18:02:28Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-it-best-practice-to-use-a-Deployment-Server-to-deploy/m-p/262827#M50443 <P>Yes, for non-clustered search heads and indexers, use the deployment server to manage your configurations. You can also use a CM tool (like puppet or chef) if you are using them in your environment. We have used the deployment server to manage our non-clustered Splunk servers for several years.</P> <P>However, you may want to consider clustering your indexers, even if you are not going to take advantage of data replication. This document discusses the pros and cons:</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.2/Indexer/Clustersinscaledoutdeployments">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.2/Indexer/Clustersinscaledoutdeployments</A></P> Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:06:28 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-it-best-practice-to-use-a-Deployment-Server-to-deploy/m-p/262827#M50443 Jeremiah 2016-02-02T18:06:28Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-it-best-practice-to-use-a-Deployment-Server-to-deploy/m-p/262828#M50444 <P>Thank you very much for the responses. The indexers are geographically diverse and I think that the replication might cause performance issues.</P> <P>Thanks, anyway!</P> Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:24:41 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-it-best-practice-to-use-a-Deployment-Server-to-deploy/m-p/262828#M50444 BlueSocket 2016-02-02T18:24:41Z