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Fleet observability, governed change, and proactive certificate / version tracking

The Deslicer Automation Platform (DAP) gives you a single-pane view of every enrolled Splunk host — Splunk version, app inventory, certificate expirations, cluster health — and a reviewer-approved change-plan workflow for every configuration edit. Certificate issues move from reactive discovery to proactive 90-day alerts, and weekly admin overhead measured in 8-15 hours per engineer can be largely freed.

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Outcomes you can expect

  • Single-pane fleet view: node status, Splunk version distribution, cluster health, certificate expirations, app inventory.
  • Certificate issues shift from reactive discovery to proactive 90-day alerts.
  • Weekly admin overhead of 8-15 hours per engineer can be largely freed for higher-value work.
  • Every config edit ships through a reviewer-approved DAP change plan with full per-host audit trail.

Estimates based on Deslicer customer observations and Splunk practitioner experience for environments running full manual pipelines. Actual results vary by environment complexity, team size, and existing tooling.

How the workflow runs

  1. 1

    Provision DAP and enrol nodes

    Provision DAP with one click from the platform page, generate an enrollment token, and run the installer on each Splunk host. Insights Nodes are lightweight agents that report operational state, config snapshots, and certificate status back to the platform without requiring you to open inbound network ingress.

  2. 2

    Open the Insights Dashboard

    Navigate to Automation Platform → Insights for the fleet view. Node Status cards show total / online / stale / offline counts, Splunk Version Distribution surfaces hosts that need an upgrade, Cluster Health flags RF violations and bundle issues, and Certificate Alerts call out expiring certs across four severity tiers.

  3. 3

    Investigate with the Configuration Browser

    Click any hostname to inspect every .conf file on that host, organised by app. The browser doubles as the source of truth for change planning — start a CIM remediation, an app deployment, or a config edit by selecting the stanza in the browser instead of grep-ing the disk on a forwarder.

  4. 4

    Draft and approve a change plan

    Bundle config edits into a DAP change plan with a name, description, and target host group. Plans can be authored manually, generated by an agent — for example the CIM Compliance Agent — or imported from a Git repository. Reviewers approve, reject, or amend the plan before it leaves draft state.

  5. 5

    Execute the rollout

    Approved plans transition through pending → approved → executing → completed with per-host status. Failed hosts are isolated so you re-target only the failing segment. The execution log persists with stanza-level diffs so post-mortems and audits can reconstruct exactly what changed and where.

  6. 6

    Set up proactive monitoring

    Schedule the Daily Health Check and Data Quality Check workflows so cluster, ingestion, and certificate signals are surfaced before a customer notices. Route warnings to a triage channel and criticals straight to the on-call rotation with the relevant evidence inline.

  7. 7

    Stay current as the fleet changes

    Add new hosts by re-running the installer with a fresh enrollment token; retire hosts with the deprovision flow that revokes the per-host API key. Splunk Version Distribution and App Inventory keep pace automatically, so the dashboard always reflects the fleet you actually run.

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Run this use case in your environment

Start free, connect a Splunk environment, and run the workflow with a reviewer-approved DAP change plan from the first execution.

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