A Splunk Deployment Server is used to centrally manage and distribute apps, configurations, and updates to deployment clients. On the deployment server, the default location for deployment apps is:
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/deployment-apps/
Apps placed in this directory can be assigned to server classes and deployed to deployment clients.
Important distinction:
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/deployment-apps/
is used on the deployment server.
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/
is where apps are normally installed on a Splunk instance, including deployment clients after apps are received.
manager-apps and peer-apps are not the default Deployment Server app staging directory.
[Reference: Splunk Enterprise Updating Splunk Enterprise Instances Manual — deployment server and deployment apps directory; Splunk Enterprise Distributed Deployment Manual — deployment server architecture., ===========]
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