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Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide
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Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide

by James H. Baxter
November 2018
Beginner
298 pages
7h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring outputs.conf

We now need to tell the forwarder which index(ers) to send their data to; you can do this from the command line:

./splunk add forward-server <indexer hostname or IP>:9997 -auth <username>:<password>

Alternatively, you can do this by creating and configuring the outputs.conf file that this command would create in the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local directory on the forwarder. In this example, we'll configure the forwarder to send data to all three of our indexers in a load balanced (one indexer at a time, round-robin) fashion. Note that we also specify the useACK option to tell the forwarder to wait for an acknowledgement from the indexer that the data was received before sending any more. Also note that the receiving ...

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ISBN: 9781789531091