We have a distributed deployment and the Deployment Server functionality resides on a single purpose machine. I was able to set the Monitoring Console as the default app for all users/roles on the Cluster Master (also a single purpose machine) by setting the following in etc/apps/user-prefs/local/user-prefs.conf on the Cluster Master:
[general]
default_namespace = splunk_monitoring_console
Is it possible to do something similar for the Forwarder Management interface on the Deployment Server? The difference, as far as I can tell, is that the Monitoring Console is an app (etc/app/splunk_monitoring_console/) while the Forwarder Management functionality is not.