Need help with Deploying Apps or TAs using Deployment server in Linux environment please. Need details please.

[SamHTexas]

Need help with Deploying Apps or TAs using Deployment server in Linux environment please. I greatly appreciate your help. I have tried my notes, but not good enough for the job. Thx

[richgalloway]

Please be more specific.  What problem are you having?  What exactly are you trying to do and how exactly are you trying to do it?  What errors do you get?  Have you read the manuals?

[SamHTexas]

Thank u for reaching out my good friend. We have Splunk & ES in a large environment. I am trying to deploy new Splunk Apps or TAs (New Apps) or New TAs via the Deployment server that I have learned is the proper method. So that the Apps are properly copied to Master cluster server & the Deployment server & Indexes. I would like to use the DS server at time install a new App or TA to a certain server for example Server123. If I have made sense so far. Later on  I will use this new method of installing Apps or TAs to install new version of over 60 Apps or TAs to override the older version of them in our environment. I thank u so much. I owe you lunch for  2 weeks when you visit Austin TX area. 

[richgalloway]

Use the DS for deploying apps to forwarders and unclustered indexers.  Use the CM for deploying apps to clustered indexers.  Do NOT use the DS for clustered indexers.  Use the SHC Deployer for a SHC.  Yes, it's three different places where you need to manage apps, but each is different and trying to use a manager in ways it was not intended can bring sadness.

Bear in mind that an app deployed by the DS cannot override a setting in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local.  This often causes confusion about why a deployed app is not working right. When switching to using a DS, make sure etc/system/local is empty.  Put deploymentclient.conf in an app that is installed before the UF starts.

[isoutamo]

And remember to define that UF will be rebooted always after TA has installed on it. Otherwise it will be there, but UF didn't realise and use it before UF has restarted!