Hi everyone,
Our deployment consists of an on prem deployment server, on prem heavy forwarder and Splunk Cloud.
Is there a way of getting our separate Heavy Forwarder to recognise our deployment server, specifically so we can configure file inputs on the heavy forwarder using the deployment clients.
I know they can be one in the same but we chose to have separate servers for operational reasons. Appreciate anyone's view/help
Hi @damo66a
the deployment server can manage any splunk instance
anyway to configure the deployment server go on your HF and run this two comands
splunk set deploy-poll <IP_address/hostname>:<management_port>
splunk restart
next step, go on your deployment server and check if is present your HF
next step create a new serverclass
on your new serverclass add client and apps
Hi @damo66a
yes, you can manage your HF from the DS, you need to create a dedicate serverclass for the HF and you can push all the configurations.
please check the documentation
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.3/Admin/Serverclassconf
thanks for the suggestion.
ive looked over that link and cant see how it tells me to do that. my understanding of a deployment client is that you install the UF on the destination machine (auto configured by script) and it "dials home" to the deployment server, then we add it to a server class as needed.
As ive already configured this server as a Heavy Forwarder, how would I go about adding it to a server class on the deployment server?
Also, My deployment server is a windows based machine, the heavy forwarder is linux based - not sure if that would have any baring at all.
Hi @damo66a
the deployment server can manage any splunk instance
anyway to configure the deployment server go on your HF and run this two comands
splunk set deploy-poll <IP_address/hostname>:<management_port>
splunk restart
next step, go on your deployment server and check if is present your HF
next step create a new serverclass
on your new serverclass add client and apps
that did it. thanks very much for your help