You will need to configure two items on the deployment server to enable its functionality:
- Create/configure the deployment apps that will contain the .conf files and other content to be deployed to the deployment clients in the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc
/deployment-apps directory
- Create/configure a serverclass.conf file in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system
/local to map which apps get distributed to which deployment clients
A deployment app consists of any content you want to download to a set of deployment clients. This content can include the following:
- A Splunkbase app (such as the Splunk app for Linux and Unix or Splunk app for Microsoft Windows)
- A set of configurations (inputs.conf, outputs.conf, and so on)
- Other content, ...