How to set up shared datamodels

[wgawhh5hbnht]

We have a SHC of three members & 1 Enterprise Security. Prior to 8.0 each were running their own datamodels. Now that shared datamodel summaries is possible, I would like to set this up to reduce performance and disk usage but have questions about the exact implementation as the documentation is vague:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.3/Knowledge/Sharedatamodelsummaries

I know that in datamodels.conf I need to set acceleration.source_guid but that's it.
My questions are:

1. Do I set this on the ES?
2. Do I use /opt/splunk/etc/system/local/datamodels.conf?
3. What would be the best way to verify the datamodels have been consolidated down to 1 copy? (right now datamodels are an exact copy of eachother)

[wgawhh5hbnht · Accepted solution]

Answering my own question after opening a case w/ support. To accomplish this you need to:

1) Yes, set the acceleration.source_guid on ES per data model you want to accelerate. Don't do this in the [default] as there will be data models specific to only ES.

2) For me, these changes reside in "splunk/etc/apps/Splunk_SA_CIM/default/datamodels.conf" because the deployer is pushing them out to the cluster.

3) Didn't get an answer to this one.

Additionally, if you add additional fields in the SHC, they won't show up in the ES data models because the data model json doesn't update. On one of the SHC you will need to manually copy .json datamodel file you made a change to (/opt/splunk/etc/apps/Splunk_SA_CIM/local/data/model/) and move that over to ES. You can't use the deployer for this natively as the deployer doesn't update the .json files. If you wanted to a custom app would.