https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-forwarder-configuration-to-load-balance-across-the/m-p/325469#M60504 <P>Hi,</P> <P>there are a couple of threads out there about this topic, even the splunk docs describe it <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.3/Forwarding/Setuploadbalancingd">here (forwarder load balancing)</A> and <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.3/Indexer/indexerdiscovery">here (indexer discovery)</A>.<BR /> You simply change your Universal/Heavy Forwarder's outputs.conf to one of those options.</P> <P>Skalli</P> Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:24:05 GMT skalliger 2017-09-07T11:24:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-forwarder-configuration-to-load-balance-across-the/m-p/325468#M60503 <P>We are planning to increasing Splunk indexers from 1 to 2. So, after this implementation, what are all the necessary changes we need to do at forwarder level.</P> Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:59:23 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-forwarder-configuration-to-load-balance-across-the/m-p/325468#M60503 RAYUDU_NARA 2017-09-07T09:59:23Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-forwarder-configuration-to-load-balance-across-the/m-p/325469#M60504 <P>Hi,</P> <P>there are a couple of threads out there about this topic, even the splunk docs describe it <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.3/Forwarding/Setuploadbalancingd">here (forwarder load balancing)</A> and <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.3/Indexer/indexerdiscovery">here (indexer discovery)</A>.<BR /> You simply change your Universal/Heavy Forwarder's outputs.conf to one of those options.</P> <P>Skalli</P> Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:24:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-forwarder-configuration-to-load-balance-across-the/m-p/325469#M60504 skalliger 2017-09-07T11:24:05Z