Whats the best practice to manage app deployment on non-clustered indexers managed by deployment server ?

[damode]

Everytime I do splunk reload deploy-server, it restarts both the Indexers (which are being managed by DS), which is obvious but also undesirable.

Can someone please suggest a better way to manage app deployment on non-clustered indexers using deployment server ?

[jscraig2006 · Accepted solution]

if your app and target servers are in a class, you should be able to reload that class only.
./splunk reload deploy-server -class <class_name>

[damode]

Thanks for the great tip!