https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-load-balanced-forwarders-select-receivers/m-p/214123#M42093 <P>Normally forwarder switches at every regular interval, say 30 mins or if the indexer goes down<BR /> The selection of receiver from the group is random<BR /> If you want to select only two out of three, you can configure that.</P> <P>Detailed doc available here : <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Forwarding/Setuploadbalancingd">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Forwarding/Setuploadbalancingd</A></P> <P>On top of this, If you have a specific issue, then somebody might be able to help you</P> Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:50:05 GMT renjith_nair 2016-01-05T19:50:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-load-balanced-forwarders-select-receivers/m-p/214122#M42092 <P>The Splunk docs for Forwarder load-balancing say that a forwarder randomly chooses between the different available receivers when it has to change where it's sending data.</P> <P>What are the specifics of this change?<BR /> Can the forwarder select the same indexer again?<BR /> Does the forwarder guarantee cycling through all the indexers by reducing its available switching pool each time until it's sent data to all of them, or is it possible for a forwarder to switch between only a few indexers out of the ones available e.g. A B A B out of A B C?</P> <P>My basic guess was that it just picked any indexer that wasn't the one it was sending to at that moment, but it didn't seem that clear.</P> Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:48:29 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-load-balanced-forwarders-select-receivers/m-p/214122#M42092 isaacvb 2016-01-05T14:48:29Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-load-balanced-forwarders-select-receivers/m-p/214123#M42093 <P>Normally forwarder switches at every regular interval, say 30 mins or if the indexer goes down<BR /> The selection of receiver from the group is random<BR /> If you want to select only two out of three, you can configure that.</P> <P>Detailed doc available here : <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Forwarding/Setuploadbalancingd">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Forwarding/Setuploadbalancingd</A></P> <P>On top of this, If you have a specific issue, then somebody might be able to help you</P> Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:50:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-load-balanced-forwarders-select-receivers/m-p/214123#M42093 renjith_nair 2016-01-05T19:50:05Z