topic Re: Is there a way to force UF to phone home to DS? in Getting Data In

Is there a way to force UF to phone home to DS?

mjlsnombrado — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 06:26:48 GMT

Hi All,

I just want to ask if there's a way to force UF to phone home to DS, we want to initiate a force phone home without editing the phone home interval under the deploymentclient.conf, currently the UF is set to phone home to the DS every 6 hours but we have a requirement that sometimes it is required to force phone home to the DS asap. I've already tried restarting the UF and running ./splunk reload deploy-server on the DS to see if it can trigger the UF to force phone home to the DS but it does not work, is there a way to do this, any suggestion can help.

Thanks and regards,
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Re: Is there a way to force UF to phone home to DS?

skalliger — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:03:11 GMT

No, I don't think there is a way to force any client. How many UFs do you have for such a high interval?

Skalli

Re: Is there a way to force UF to phone home to DS?

woodcock — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 21:48:05 GMT

The only way is to restart Splunk. One of the very first things that every Splunk does is DS phonehome.

Re: Is there a way to force UF to phone home to DS?

dchavda — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:00:49 GMT

i think i might have found something...

i tested this by setting the phoneHomeIntervalInSecs = 3600 so that it only pulls the updates every hour

and i found this REST call under REST API Reference Manual and i tried to do so ...but the /reload does not seem to force the client to do phoneHome but i found another option in the response that i am able to use

it is /sync

so i tried using

curl -k -u username:pass -X POST https://<IP>:8089/services/deployment/client/deployment-client/sync

and it is helping me to have the client do phoneHome when i hit this url.

it also pulled the app updates which i did.

This worked for me .