https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-i-run-two-splunk-universal-forwarders-on-a-single-windows/m-p/77872#M15938 <P>I'm with yannK. You probably should simply look into creating separate apps that you can call your own, rather than trying to make a new install work.</P> Tue, 01 Oct 2013 17:59:33 GMT aholzer 2013-10-01T17:59:33Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-i-run-two-splunk-universal-forwarders-on-a-single-windows/m-p/77870#M15936 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I have one splunkforwader installed on my windows server which is configured by some other user, Now I want to have my own splunk forwarder to be set up without affecting any configuration files and forwarding of the 1st splunk forwarder, Is it possible? I have gone through this link <A href="http://wiki.splunk.com/Community:Run_multiple_Splunks_on_one_machine" target="_blank">http://wiki.splunk.com/Community:Run_multiple_Splunks_on_one_machine</A> regarding the same but the steps explained on this link has some deletion of files and directories from the 1st forwarder and then we have to copy that instance to a different directory, i'm not sure if that will affect the configuration of the 1st forwarder.</P> <P>Please can anyone advice?</P> <P>Thanks in advance <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:52:12 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-i-run-two-splunk-universal-forwarders-on-a-single-windows/m-p/77870#M15936 kollampalli 2020-09-28T14:52:12Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-i-run-two-splunk-universal-forwarders-on-a-single-windows/m-p/77871#M15937 <P>The simple answer is no, Windows allows only 1 services.</P> <P>The best alternative is to install 2 different services :<BR /> 1 - an universal forwarder<BR /> 2- a regular splunk with the "light weight forwarder" enabled.</P> <P>But I still wonder why you would want to do such a thing, you will finish with duplicated data, extra license consumption, and a pain to maintain ?</P> Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:34:34 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-i-run-two-splunk-universal-forwarders-on-a-single-windows/m-p/77871#M15937 yannK 2013-10-01T14:34:34Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-i-run-two-splunk-universal-forwarders-on-a-single-windows/m-p/77872#M15938 <P>I'm with yannK. You probably should simply look into creating separate apps that you can call your own, rather than trying to make a new install work.</P> Tue, 01 Oct 2013 17:59:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-i-run-two-splunk-universal-forwarders-on-a-single-windows/m-p/77872#M15938 aholzer 2013-10-01T17:59:33Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-i-run-two-splunk-universal-forwarders-on-a-single-windows/m-p/77873#M15939 <P>I think i was not very clear, Actually we have a pre-configured forwarder running on our windows server by other user, it is configured in such a way that it can only forward the logs which are registered on it, Also it has many features disabled like we can't install splunk_TA windows app on it to monitor CPU,Disk,Network Usage on the same server,I came across an option to install multiple forwarders from the link which i shared but i am not sure if deleting the files &amp; directories from the existing forwarder and making an new instance out of it will affect the configuration of 1st instance</P> Wed, 02 Oct 2013 09:04:58 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-i-run-two-splunk-universal-forwarders-on-a-single-windows/m-p/77873#M15939 kollampalli 2013-10-02T09:04:58Z