Issue/12033

salt/elasticfleet/defaults.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 elasticfleet:
   enabled: False
+  enable_manager_output: True
   config:
     server:
       custom_fqdn: []

salt/elasticfleet/soc_elasticfleet.yaml

@@ -3,12 +3,18 @@ elasticfleet:
     description: You can enable or disable Elastic Fleet.
     advanced: True
     helpLink: elastic-fleet.html
+  enable_manager_output:
+    description: Setting this option to False should only be considered if there is at least one receiver node in the grid. If True, Elastic Agent will send events to the manager and receivers. If False, events will only be send to the receivers.
+    advanced: True
+    global: True
+    forcedType: bool
+    helpLink: elastic-fleet.html
   logging:
     zeek:
       excluded:
         description: This is a list of Zeek logs that are excluded from being shipped through the data processing pipeline. If you remove a log from this list, Elastic Agent will attempt to process it. If an ingest node pipeline is not available to process the logs, you may experience errors.
         forcedType: "[]string"
-        helpLink: zeek.html 
+        helpLink: zeek.html
   config:
     server:
       custom_fqdn:

salt/elasticfleet/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elastic-fleet-outputs-update

@@ -34,12 +34,17 @@ fi
 CURRENT_LIST=$(jq -c -r '.item.hosts' <<<  "$RAW_JSON")
 CURRENT_HASH=$(sha1sum <<< "$CURRENT_LIST" | awk '{print $1}')
 
+declare -a NEW_LIST=()
+
+{# If we select to not send to manager via SOC, then omit the code that adds manager to NEW_LIST #}
+{% if ELASTICFLEETMERGED.enable_manager_output %}
 # Create array & add initial elements
 if [ "{{ GLOBALS.hostname }}" = "{{ GLOBALS.url_base }}" ]; then
-    NEW_LIST=("{{ GLOBALS.url_base }}:5055")
+    NEW_LIST+=("{{ GLOBALS.url_base }}:5055")
 else
-    NEW_LIST=("{{ GLOBALS.url_base }}:5055" "{{ GLOBALS.hostname }}:5055")
+    NEW_LIST+=("{{ GLOBALS.url_base }}:5055" "{{ GLOBALS.hostname }}:5055")
 fi
+{% endif %}
 
 # Query for FQDN entries & add them to the list
 {% if ELASTICFLEETMERGED.config.server.custom_fqdn | length > 0 %}