https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-forwarder/m-p/91632#M19038 <P>Can 4.2.1 Forwarder send data to 4.1.6 Indexer?</P> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:10:45 GMT bwenge 2011-04-29T09:10:45Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-forwarder/m-p/91632#M19038 <P>Can 4.2.1 Forwarder send data to 4.1.6 Indexer?</P> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:10:45 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-forwarder/m-p/91632#M19038 bwenge 2011-04-29T09:10:45Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-forwarder/m-p/91633#M19039 <P>I'm not sure about this arrangement, but in our environment we had 4.2 universal forwarders sending to 4.1.4 indexers. </P> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:51:26 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-forwarder/m-p/91633#M19039 carmackd 2011-04-29T13:51:26Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-forwarder/m-p/91634#M19040 <P>4.2.1 Forwarder is backwards compatible with 4.1.6 (I ran mine like that for a month or so before upgrading).</P> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:00:51 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-forwarder/m-p/91634#M19040 Brian_Osburn 2011-04-29T14:00:51Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-forwarder/m-p/91635#M19041 <P>From the online documentation:</P> <P>"The universal forwarder is backwards compatible with older Splunk indexers. You can forward data to any Splunk indexers, version 3.4.14 or above. "</P> <P>See: </P> <P><A href="http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Deploy/Deploymentoverview">http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Deploy/Deploymentoverview</A></P> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:20:30 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-forwarder/m-p/91635#M19041 Steve_G_ 2011-04-29T19:20:30Z