topic How to add a search head to search against our Splunk indexer? in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-add-a-search-head-to-search-against-our-Splunk-indexer/m-p/172124#M34695 <P>What are the best practices for setup and using a search head server to take the load off of our indexer?<BR /> We have an enterprise license. Do you have a how-to somewhere for adding another search head<BR /> and how is the licensing being added to the enterprise license?</P> Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:45:43 GMT kairobin 2015-03-10T14:45:43Z How to add a search head to search against our Splunk indexer? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-add-a-search-head-to-search-against-our-Splunk-indexer/m-p/172124#M34695 <P>What are the best practices for setup and using a search head server to take the load off of our indexer?<BR /> We have an enterprise license. Do you have a how-to somewhere for adding another search head<BR /> and how is the licensing being added to the enterprise license?</P> Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:45:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-add-a-search-head-to-search-against-our-Splunk-indexer/m-p/172124#M34695 kairobin 2015-03-10T14:45:43Z Re: How to add a search head to search against our Splunk indexer? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-add-a-search-head-to-search-against-our-Splunk-indexer/m-p/172125#M34696 <P>Hi kairobin,</P> <P>take a look at the docs here <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/DistSearch/Overviewofconfiguration">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/DistSearch/Overviewofconfiguration</A> to get more details how it can be done.<BR /> Regarding the license; you can configure the search head as license slave <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Admin/Configurealicenseslave">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Admin/Configurealicenseslave</A> , but usually the search head will not consume any license volume since it will not index any data.</P> <P>Hope this helps ...</P> <P>cheers, MuS</P> Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:57:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-add-a-search-head-to-search-against-our-Splunk-indexer/m-p/172125#M34696 MuS 2015-03-10T14:57:48Z