Why does excludeFromUpdate not work in serverclass.conf?

[schose]

Hi all,

I'm managing my apps deployed through forwarder management using git. When running a scheduled "git pull" the file, .git/FETCH_HEAD is always newly created.
When running a splunk reload deploy-server, the app is always sent out to the clients and Splunk will be restarted.

To avoid this, I'm trying to use the excludeFromUpdate introduced in Splunk v6.2 but neither

[serverClass:splunkdebug:app:myapp]
restartSplunkd = 1
stateOnClient = enabled
excludeFromUpdate=myapp/.git

nor

[default]
excludeFromUpdate=$app_root$/.git

seems to work.

Any hints?

Cheers,

Andreas

[hexx · Accepted solution]

What version are your deployment clients running? This particular setting requires both the deployment server and its deployment clients to be running Splunk Enterprise 6.2 or higher.

[schose]

You're right. 🙂

[hexx]

Oh good, let me convert my comment to an answer then.

[schose]

As hexx answered correctly you also need a v6.2 or higer client.

Workaround for everyone having the same issue with the older clients using git: it's save enough to delete the .git//FETCH_HEAD everytime after git pull.

Regards,

Andreas