topic Re: DNS roundrobin for autoloadbalancing in Getting Data In

DNS roundrobin for autoloadbalancing

the_wolverine — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:26:25 GMT

Has anyone used DNS for autoloadbalancing of forwarded data?

Re: DNS roundrobin for autoloadbalancing

dagryph — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:49:42 GMT

DNS roundrobin, for deployment servers, indexers, or search heads?
Doesn't work quite right for Deployment Servers (yet) that we've tried, indexers should NOT be put into this configuration since it handles it using autolb. Search Pools are safe with search heads, but not independently since authentication becomes an issue.

Re: DNS roundrobin for autoloadbalancing

the_wolverine — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:50:40 GMT

For indexers - e.g. configure a DNS zone file that will roundrobin to indexers so that we could configure a single server in the outputs.conf on a forwarder.

Re: DNS roundrobin for autoloadbalancing

the_wolverine — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:39:55 GMT

Looks like there is a document for this topic: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.2/Deploy/Setuploadbalancingd#Targets_for_load_balancing