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Hi all,
I have been working on integrating the Splunk Universal Forwarder into a system image that we will use to deploy to new assets going forwards, as per this Splunkbase Article.
I was wondering how this works with the deployment server? I know that the forwarders deployed with the images will reach out to the deployment server, but I was wondering if there is a way to automatically sort the new hosts into a certain server class, or whether this has to be done manually?
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Splunk supports PCRE(ish) RegEx in the deployment server serverclass web GUI - We achieved the result by writing a PCRE compatible RegEx and applied it in the whitelist/blacklist.
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Splunk supports PCRE(ish) RegEx in the deployment server serverclass web GUI - We achieved the result by writing a PCRE compatible RegEx and applied it in the whitelist/blacklist.
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If it is helpful, we have a regex we can use to identify the specific assets - Would we put this into the serverclass whitelist?
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first create your serverclasses, create the hosts (clients) whitelist with wild cards to match future forwarders
for example, lets imagine all your jukebox application servers has the naming convention: jukeboxXXXX
you can whilelist "jukebox*" in serverclass and every new forwarder that has the matching convention will happily join to disco
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I love your example - I really do!
As it turns out, we use quite a weird naming convention that doesn't necessarily work with an asterisk wild card, however, whilst playing around with your suggestion, I noticed that the server class whitelist (in the deployment server GUI) supports PCRE-ish RegEx, so we tried it, it worked and away we went 🙂
Thank you for the comment that lead me to play around a bit 🙂
