Implementing Splunk 7 - Third Edition

Step 7 - installing deploymentclient.conf

Now that we have a running deployment server, we need to set up the clients to call home. On each machine that will be running the deployment client, the procedure is essentially as follows:

1. Copy the deploymentclient-yourcompanyname app to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/
2. Restart Splunk

If everything is configured correctly, you should see the appropriate apps appear in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/, within a few minutes. To see what is happening, look at the log $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log.

If you have problems, enable debugging on either the client or the server by editing $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/log.cfg, followed by a restart. Look for the following lines:

category.DeploymentServer=WARN category.DeploymentClient=WARN ...