Upgrading app lost kvstore objects (TenableAppForS

[donelliot]

I thought I was following OK practice as these were customisations to collections.conf and transforms.conf and savedsearches.conf in the local directory

But it appears the app owner just got rid of them when I upgraded to 5.0.0 to 5.1.0

Working to recover the situation and have pinged the developer. The data should be recreated

Was it my fault by adding stanzas to a commercial app ? or should I have been protected if I stuck to local copies ?

[donelliot]

As before I just clicked on upgrade in the management of apps screen and it seems to have emptied the local directory ! restoring from a backup

[donelliot]

I got  an all-in one setup, and just download the app without pre-testing - my bad

[PickleRick]

Ok. But how did you update them? Using the "apps" screen in splunk webui? By downloading them manually and installing them from cli?

[donelliot]

I'm fairly sure by clicking on the update hint  from the manaagement screen /en-US/manager/launcher/apps/local

[PickleRick]

If you had your definitions in app/local directory, it should have been retained across upgrades. The app should overwrite the app/default directory (and therefore you should never directly edit files there) but your local files shouldn't be touched.

[PickleRick]

What is your environment? Do you use all-in-one setup or do you have search-head cluster? How do you deploy apps? How did you upgrade the app?