https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-update-app-with-deployment-server-without-overwriting/m-p/146276#M40836 <P>I have something similar. I've create a "core" app with my important and shared lookups so I can play with the other apps without worrying about it. Just make sure you configure the permissions for the lookup file and definitions to "all apps"</P> Thu, 17 Jul 2014 05:04:21 GMT musskopf 2014-07-17T05:04:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-update-app-with-deployment-server-without-overwriting/m-p/146275#M40835 <P>I have an app that updates a lookup table from a saved search each night. The app is going to be updated periodically via a deployment server.</P> <P>How can I keep the deployment server from overwriting the current lookup (.csv) files? If I leave them out of the deployment package, it will end up deleting them altogether.</P> <P>Is it possible that the lookup files can reside in another app dedicated to housing the lookups and still be able to be called from the other app?</P> Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:32:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-update-app-with-deployment-server-without-overwriting/m-p/146275#M40835 franks59 2014-07-17T00:32:49Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-update-app-with-deployment-server-without-overwriting/m-p/146276#M40836 <P>I have something similar. I've create a "core" app with my important and shared lookups so I can play with the other apps without worrying about it. Just make sure you configure the permissions for the lookup file and definitions to "all apps"</P> Thu, 17 Jul 2014 05:04:21 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-update-app-with-deployment-server-without-overwriting/m-p/146276#M40836 musskopf 2014-07-17T05:04:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-update-app-with-deployment-server-without-overwriting/m-p/146277#M40837 <P>One more thing, the data for all lookups might be the same on all servers you're deploying it, right?! if that's the case you might decide to use a NFS or Samba share to store this file instead of re-create it on all servers each night.</P> Thu, 17 Jul 2014 05:06:11 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-update-app-with-deployment-server-without-overwriting/m-p/146277#M40837 musskopf 2014-07-17T05:06:11Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-update-app-with-deployment-server-without-overwriting/m-p/146278#M40838 <P>Yes, it is possible to have lookup CSV files in other app. You have to edit serverclass.conf file to include that app also to be deployed to your node.</P> <P>We generally follow this design: Keep all the common files in a common app and push that app to all nodes. In our case lookups are also part of this common app.</P> Fri, 18 Jul 2014 07:56:50 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-update-app-with-deployment-server-without-overwriting/m-p/146278#M40838 strive 2014-07-18T07:56:50Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-update-app-with-deployment-server-without-overwriting/m-p/146279#M40839 <P>I forsee functionality of the apps depending on the common app expanding, requiring more csv files.</P> <P>How do you then upgrade the common (csv) app without losing the current data?</P> Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:39:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-update-app-with-deployment-server-without-overwriting/m-p/146279#M40839 franks59 2014-07-18T11:39:35Z