License impact using load balancing

splunkreal — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:00:45 GMT

Hello,

we have clustered indexers.

Could you confirm if the license usage is the same using these settings in the outputs.conf of universal forwarders :

[tcpout]
defaultGroup=indexer1,indexer2

[tcpout:indexer1]
server=10.1.1.197:9997

[tcpout:indexer2]
server=10.1.1.200:9997

I also noted it's possible to use this, however it may increase replication between indexers?

[tcpout:my_LB_indexers]
server=10.10.10.1:9997,10.10.10.2:9996,10.10.10.3:9995

Thanks a lot.

Re: License impact using load balancing

adonio — Wed, 10 May 2017 15:54:39 GMT

Why will it effect licensing?
License counts against data indexed in the indexers and ... that's it!
it does not count against replication, internal data etc.
read more here:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.0/InheritedDeployment/Licensing
and here:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.0/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses
why will this configuration increase replication on indexers?
read more about outputs and forwarders load balancing here:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Forwarder/6.6.0/Forwarder/Configureforwardingwithoutputs.conf
hope it helps