https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-the-forwarder-detect-available-indexers/m-p/371856#M67489 <P>Much appreciated @rphillips!</P> Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:04:58 GMT ddrillic 2017-11-15T22:04:58Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-the-forwarder-detect-available-indexers/m-p/371854#M67487 <P>We hard-code the indexers in the <CODE>outputs.conf</CODE> at the moment. How can we detect the indexers automatically by the forwarder and avoid the hard-coding ?</P> Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:42:56 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-the-forwarder-detect-available-indexers/m-p/371854#M67487 ddrillic 2017-11-15T18:42:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-the-forwarder-detect-available-indexers/m-p/371855#M67488 <P>By using indexer discovery the forwarder can detect indexers. This of course requires that your indexers are setup in an indexer cluster. The forwarders would contact the indexer cluster master to receive the peer list from the CM so adding new indexers to the cluster doesn't require editing outputs.conf anymore on your forwarders:</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.0/Indexer/indexerdiscovery">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.0/Indexer/indexerdiscovery</A></P> Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:59:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-the-forwarder-detect-available-indexers/m-p/371855#M67488 rphillips_splk 2017-11-15T18:59:39Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-the-forwarder-detect-available-indexers/m-p/371856#M67489 <P>Much appreciated @rphillips!</P> Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:04:58 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-the-forwarder-detect-available-indexers/m-p/371856#M67489 ddrillic 2017-11-15T22:04:58Z