I'm having an issue with getting the Universal Splunk forwarder to reach out to the deployment server. I have 12 servers that I've configured all the same way and 8 of them are working properly but for some reason these last 4 will not reach out. It's not a firewall issue as I can telnet to 8089 to the deployment server without issue and all of the servers have an entry in the serverlist.conf file on the deployment server. In each server we are seeing this in the splunk.d logs 08-26-2020 11:18:32.341 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - Creating a DeploymentClient instance
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - Setting : disabled=false
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - Setting : workingDir=c:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\var\run
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - Setting : clientName=DDF77B18-237A-4753-B250-BC8D91C28FF4
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - Setting : repositoryLocation=c:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\etc\apps
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - Setting : serverRepositoryLocationPolicy=acceptSplunkHome
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - Setting : serverEndpointPolicy=acceptAlways
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - Setting : maxRetries=3
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - Setting : waitInSecsBetweenRetries=60
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - Setting : phoneHomeIntervalInSecs=60
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 INFO DC:DeploymentClient - target-broker clause is missing.
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - Setting : endpoint=$deploymentServerUri$/services/streams/deployment?name=$tenantName$:$serverClassName$:$appName$
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - Setting : reloadDSOnAppInstall=false
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 WARN DC:DeploymentClient - DeploymentClient explicitly disabled through config.
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - trace 1
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - trace 2
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - trace 3
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - trace 4
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - trace 5
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - trace 6
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - trace 7
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 DEBUG DC:DeploymentClient - trace 8
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 INFO DS_DC_Common - Deployment Client not initialized.
08-26-2020 11:18:32.356 -0500 INFO DS_DC_Common - Deployment Server not available on a dedicated forwarder. Our deployment.conf is in the correct place and it explicity has disabled set to false under the [deployment-client] heading. I've uninstalled and installed the forwarder multiple times and restarted the services on the deployment server. It just somehow thinks the Deployment client is disabled by default in the config on these 4 servers.
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