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Avoid app update when deployer push bundle

SplunkExplorer
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Hi Splunkers, today I have the following issue: on our SHC, there is a small app subset that is managed, and so modified, from their user directly on SHs.

What does it means for us? Of course, that we need to perform version updates from SH to Deployer before perform a new app bundle push. Otherwise, older version on Deployer will override the updated one on SH.
My wondering is: is there any way, on Splunk version 9.2.1, to avoid this app update when Deployer is used? 
The final purpose, just to make an example, is: ehy, if deployer has 100 apps in $SPLUNK_HOME$/etc/shcluster/apps, we want that on a bundle push, 95 of them must be updated, if SH version is NOT equal to Deployer one; remaining 5, should not be updated by Deployer.

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Have you try different Push modes? See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.2.1/DistSearch/PropagateSHCconfigurationchanges#Choos...

You could set this separately for each app in it's app.conf file or globally in .../etc/system/local/app.conf

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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @SplunkExplorer 

When changes to apps are made on your SHC - the changes are applied to the ./local folder within the app on the SHC, whereas the content pushed from your deployer generally lands in the ./default directory.

This means that if users have modified any of the knowledge objects since it was pushed from the deployer, they wont be overwritten when a subsequent deployment is done.

Check out the docs for more info "Because of how configuration file precedence works, changes that users make to apps at runtime get ...

 

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