Filter deployment by machineType not working?

[dave_duvall]

Anyone having good luck using machineType to filter clients in the deployment manager? Here is a snippet of my serverclass.conf

#Server Class for Windows
[serverClass:windows]
machineTypes=windows-intel,windows-x64

[serverClass:windows:app:winevt]
stateOnClient=enabled
restartSplunkd=true

My app is called winevt and enables basic windows event collection. The problem is - Linux forwarders are picking up this configuration. Everything is 4.0.11 in this world right now.

Anyone else experience this or am I misunderstanding the docs - it seemed like you didn't need a whitelist/blacklist if you were filtering the class by machineType.

[gkanapathy · Accepted solution]

machineTypes only takes effect if the machine has failed the whitelist/blacklist filters. The easiest way to make it work is to add:

[global]
blacklist.0=*

to the top of your serverclass.conf file.

[dave_duvall]

Thanks - that was the trick...

[piebob]

cool, i'll make sure this gets updated in the deployment server doc.