How to change deploy-poll atomatically?

[xiyangyang]

We have 2 deployment-servers.
One is Windows which manage about 1500 Windows client servers.
One is Linux which manage about 500 Linux 20 Solaris client servers.
We wonder if there is a way to make the 2 deployment servers as backup for each other.
For example, if the Linux DS is down, Window DS is going to take care of the Linux client servers AUTOMATICALLy.
It is impossible for us to change the deploy-poll in the client servers one by one because there is too many.

[esix_splunk · Accepted solution]

Splunk doesnt have this capability built in.

Your best bet would be to use dns in the case one fails.

If you your your windows DS is winds.mydomain.com and if your linux DS is nixds.mydomain.com, change DNS when one of these goes down. So if winds.mydomain.com goes down, change DNS to point to the nixds.mydomain.com server.

You need to maintain the contents of both serverclasses.conf on each DS however to account for failover.

For setting deploy-poll, I would create a custom app that sets this time. And then push this to your clients.