November 2018
Beginner
298 pages
7h 51m
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The interesting thing about a deployment server is that the act of creating a serverclass.conf file in the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local directory is all it takes to prepare any Splunk Enterprise instance to serve this function. While you can use almost any non-clustered Splunk member as a deployment server for very small (< 30 deployment clients) environments, you'll want to use a dedicated deployment server for higher counts because of the resource overhead involved. You can service up to ~300 clients with a single deployment server, depending upon its capabilities, and ~1,000 or more if you decrease the phone-home time on the deployment clients (forwarders).
The serverclass.conf file is where we map the ...
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