Deployment Matrix

What goes where ?

Application stack components

Component name	Purpose	Installation
metricator-for-nmon	Front-user core application	Search Heads
SA-metricator-for-nmon	Support Add-on for index-time configurations	Indexers
TA-metricator-for-nmon	Technical Add-on for metrics and inventory generation	Each monitored server
TA-metricator-hec-for-nmon	Technical Add-on for metrics and inventory generation	Each monitored server
DA-ITSI-METRICATOR-NMON	ITSI module for Nmon Metricator	ITSI search head(s)

ONLY one technical addon must be deployed on the same host, BUT you can mix any both types of addons in your deployment.

Splunk Standalone deployment

A standalone Splunk installation means that all the Splunk roles are performed by the same instance, most likely for testing and development purposes.

Splunk roles	metricator-for-nmon	SA-metricator-for-nmon	TA-metricator-*
Standalone	X	X (optional)	X (optional)

The Technical Add-ons provide performance and configuration collection for the host than runs the add-on, which is optional

If running ITSI in a standalone server, the ITSI module must be deployed as well.

Distributed deployment

A Splunk distributed deployment is a Splunk infrastructure where specific Splunk roles are dedicated to specific instances.

For more information: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Deploy/Indexercluster

The Metricator is fully compatible with any kind of Splunk distributed deployment.

Splunk roles	metricator-for-nmon	SA-metricator-for-nmon	TA-metricator-*
Search head	X		X (optional)
Indexer		X	X (optional)
Master node			X (optional)
Deployment server			X (optional)
Heavy Forwarder		X (if TA is not installed)	X
Universal Forwarder			X

The Technical Add-on provides performance and configuration collection for the host than runs the add-on, which is optional

If running ITSI, the ITSI module must be deployed on all ITSI search heads:

Splunk roles	DA-ITSI-METRICATOR-NMON
ITSI Search head(s)	X

Additional notes about ITSI:

• On the ITSI search head(s), only the ITSI module is mandatory required
• If ITSI is running in a Search Head Cluster (SHC), the module must be deployed by the SHC deployer along with other ITSI components
• The Splunk Web Metricator application can be as well deployed on the ITSI search heads without affecting the module, but this is not required