Setting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs for deploymentclient.conf

[gfriedmann]

I am having trouble getting the deploymentclient.conf setting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs to be followed.

Using a universal forwarder on windows the default checkin seems to be 60 seconds. I tried to specify 5 minutes in /apps/foo/local/deploymentclient.conf , but it still checks in every 60 seconds.

Does anyone know if this must be set in system/local/deploymentclient.conf or if it expected to work if specified in any /etc/app/foo/local/deploymentclient.conf ?

[Ellen · Accepted solution]

There is a known issue (SPL-41174) regarding phonehome messages incorrectly displaying at the default of every 60 seconds despite resetting phoneHomeIntervalInSecs.

See this for more details.

[gkanapathy]

It has always worked for me in an app folder.

[gfriedmann]

How did you verify the checkin interval?

[hazekamp]

This could be caused by a permissions issue in your apps/foo/metadata/default.meta. Try adding:

## default.meta
[deploymentclient]
export = system

[jbsplunk]

I've seen other similar issues fixed by using this setting.

[gfriedmann]

I will try.

[gfriedmann]

I can use the same syntax to override the setting in system/local/deploymentclient.conf and it works as expected.

but in apps/foo/local/deploymentclient.conf , it still shows up as desired when i type "splunk show config -name deploymentclient", but the checkins continue at 60 second intervals.