Deployment Architecture

Restart required for edits to serverclass.conf?

Jason
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Is a splunkd restart required for pulling in new edits to serverclass.conf? Or is this file polled every time the DeploymentServer is pinged by a client?

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The documentation incorrectly stated that the server must be restarted to load changes in the file. This has been corrected.

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