Can I configure restartSplunkd to true for all applications?

[spl_aficionado]

Based on the Which apps need the restartSplunkd to be true? I would like to configure all apps to have restartSplunkd as true without specifying it explicitly. 

I added to the top of serverclass.conf - 

[global]
crossServerChecksum = true
restartSplunkd = true

[default]
restartSplunkd = true

 And still, after deploying an app, restartSplunkd at the app level is false on the UI. What am I missing?

[isoutamo]

Usually I put its GUI immediately into "readonly mode". One way to do it is to modify serverclass.conf e.g.

###########################
## GUI Read Only setting ##
###########################
[global]
whitelist.0 = -

Basically just something wrong into stanza and then you cannot modify it with GUI, but GUI is for checking things.

If I recall correctly there was some "issue" to see those values in GUI (at least some older splunk versions) if you put those restartSplund into global/default. Those are working correctly, but GUI didn't show that those are present.

FYI: One nice app to do reloadds via GUI  https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/7339

[PickleRick]

The webUI does not support all possible settings and combinations thereof so maybe this one is not covered either.

I'd do a simple test - set your global parameters to restart=true, create a simple app without setting the restart option to anything and push it to just one forwarder. Verify if it restarts.

[spl_aficionado]

Thank you for your response, @PickleRick. I set up a small environment with the global restartSplunkd set to true and selected an app to deploy, and the UI still doesn't show it selected.

[PickleRick]

Yeah, that was predictable. But the question is whether the UF has restarted or not.

[spl_aficionado]

Thank you @PickleRick, the global stanzas worked perfectly fine. The only thing I missed was bouncing the deployment server. Many thanks.

[PickleRick]

Yeah, as I said - some more advanced configurations cannot be handled with GUI and you have to stick with manual fiddling with config files.