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Is there an easy way to tell what role a Splunk server is?

Quantum
Explorer

Is there an easy way to tell what role a Splunk server is?

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SinghK
Builder

Quantum, 

It will be great if you can accept one of the replies as answer.

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @Quantum ..

You can use this command:

| rest /services/server/info | table host host_fqdn server_roles 

 

Please check this Splunk document: 

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.1/InheritedDeployment/Confdiscovery

Component_discovery_new

 

thanks and best regards,
Sekar

PS - If this or any post helped you in any way, pls consider upvoting, thanks for reading !

isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

one way to get some hints for its role is use REST API. For local server you can try 

| rest /services/server/roles splunk_server=local
| fields splunk_server role_list

Of course this expecting that those servers are added as a search peers to that node. You can add only one splunk_server only  on command arguments, but you could use wildcards.

Another way is use curl on command line to access remote to those servers.

r. Ismo 

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