https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-forward-data-from-file/m-p/92710#M19255 <P>The appropriate way would be to install a Universal Forwarder on the hosts you want to read data from. You say that it's "too much" to install forwarders on all hosts - why is that? What issues are you seeing with that?</P> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:36:26 GMT Ayn 2012-10-17T07:36:26Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-forward-data-from-file/m-p/92709#M19254 <P>For example, i have two hosts.<BR /> The data is in host1.<BR /> Now the host2 need recived data, wheather i can send the data to host2 by socket?<BR /> Syslog or other way?<BR /> I wan<CODE>t use splunk forwarder,because i have lots of host1, if i install splunk forwarder in every host1,<BR /> it</CODE>s too much.</P> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:01:45 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-forward-data-from-file/m-p/92709#M19254 perlish 2012-10-17T06:01:45Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-forward-data-from-file/m-p/92710#M19255 <P>The appropriate way would be to install a Universal Forwarder on the hosts you want to read data from. You say that it's "too much" to install forwarders on all hosts - why is that? What issues are you seeing with that?</P> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:36:26 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/how-to-forward-data-from-file/m-p/92710#M19255 Ayn 2012-10-17T07:36:26Z