Getting Data In

how to use Universal Forwarder as an receiver and start loadbalancing

rechteklebe
Path Finder

Hi,

i would like to use one of my universal forwarder as a second indexer. Please help me how to do it.

In the second step i would like to configure that all forwarders send data to both indexer in a loadbalancer mode.

Can you help me please?

thanks

0 Karma

kristian_kolb
Ultra Champion

You cannot use the Universal Forwarder to index events. In order to have an extra indexer, you need to install a the full Splunk product.

/K

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