Is there a way to force UF to phone home to DS?

[mjlsnombrado]

Hi All,

I just want to ask if there's a way to force UF to phone home to DS, we want to initiate a force phone home without editing the phone home interval under the deploymentclient.conf, currently the UF is set to phone home to the DS every 6 hours but we have a requirement that sometimes it is required to force phone home to the DS asap. I've already tried restarting the UF and running ./splunk reload deploy-server on the DS to see if it can trigger the UF to force phone home to the DS but it does not work, is there a way to do this, any suggestion can help.

Thanks and regards,
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[dchavda]

i think i might have found something... 

i tested this by setting the phoneHomeIntervalInSecs = 3600 so that it only pulls the updates every hour 

and i found this REST call under REST API Reference Manual  and i tried to do so ...but the /reload does not seem to force the client to do phoneHome but i found another option in the response that i am able to use 

    <link href="/services/deployment/client/config" rel="list"/>
    <link href="/services/deployment/client/config" rel="edit"/>
    <link href="/services/deployment/client/config/reload" rel="reload"/>
    <link href="/services/deployment/client/config/sync" rel="sync"/>
    <content type="text/xml">

it is /sync 

so i tried using 

 curl -k -u username:pass -X POST https://<IP>:8089/services/deployment/client/deployment-client/sync

and it is helping me to have the client do phoneHome when i hit this url.

it also pulled the app updates which i did. 

This worked for me . 

[woodcock]

The only way is to restart Splunk. One of the very first things that every Splunk does is DS phonehome.

[skalliger]

No, I don't think there is a way to force any client. How many UFs do you have for such a high interval?

Skalli