Problem solved...
I am working with a vendor that provides Splunk as part of their package. This is both good and bad. In the script I developed to monotier and report, I was writing one of my files to a folder that the vendor's software monitored. Whenever I updated that file (once a minute) then vendor's software kicked off a re-deployment on the deployment server. Since I was doing this every minute it eventually caused splunnd to throw up on my job scheduler and anaytics. Not writing to the folder fixed this issue. I am now using the REST interface to gather deploy-clinent, and search-server information one a minute without error.
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