Deployment Architecture

Deploying wmi.conf for windows universal forwarders with deployment-server

dturner83
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I need a little help with the ability to deploy wmi.conf to my clients.

As I understand the wmi.conf must go into the /etc/system/local folder on the windows client. How do I put this file in there OR tell splunk to look in the /etc/apps/[deployment-client app] folder which gets put there properly, for the wmi.conf file?

Splunk 4.3.1 with deployment-server, have about 30 windows universal forwarders with proper serverclass.conf

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iunderwood
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I apologize for being late to the party, as it were.

Use your deployment server properly and create an app for the WMI stuff. In this case, we'll call it winsvr-localwmi. Place your wmi.conf in the default directory:

$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/deployment-apps/winsvr-localwmi/default

If you don't have the input defined, you'll need an inputs.conf in the same directory:

[script://$SPLUNK_HOME\bin\scripts\splunk-wmi.path]
disabled = 0

Lastly, be sure your universal forwards restart after the change, or you might end up scratching your head. I made a server class for all my Windows machines. Since my Splunk installation is all RHEL, all my Windows boxes are UFs only.

I put this in my serverclass.conf:

[serverClass:Forwarder_Universal_Windows]
blacklist.0 = *
disabled = 0
filterType = blacklist
machineTypes = windows-intel,windows-x64
restartSplunkd = True

Posting this anyway because I hate finding answers more than once. 🙂

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iunderwood
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I apologize for being late to the party, as it were.

Use your deployment server properly and create an app for the WMI stuff. In this case, we'll call it winsvr-localwmi. Place your wmi.conf in the default directory:

$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/deployment-apps/winsvr-localwmi/default

If you don't have the input defined, you'll need an inputs.conf in the same directory:

[script://$SPLUNK_HOME\bin\scripts\splunk-wmi.path]
disabled = 0

Lastly, be sure your universal forwards restart after the change, or you might end up scratching your head. I made a server class for all my Windows machines. Since my Splunk installation is all RHEL, all my Windows boxes are UFs only.

I put this in my serverclass.conf:

[serverClass:Forwarder_Universal_Windows]
blacklist.0 = *
disabled = 0
filterType = blacklist
machineTypes = windows-intel,windows-x64
restartSplunkd = True

Posting this anyway because I hate finding answers more than once. 🙂

aojie654
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A great idea that work perfectly!

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dturner83
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WOW iunderwood this works perfectly. Thank you very much.

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