topic Heavy Forwarder iNSTALLED OR NOT in Installation

Heavy Forwarder iNSTALLED OR NOT

umeshcreddy — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:10:42 GMT

I have asked to Add the new Linux HFs to the forwarding configurations and ensure that logs are passing through them

how to verify the condition is met or not

Re: Heavy Forwarder iNSTALLED OR NOT

gcusello — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:41:44 GMT

Hi @umeshcreddy,

let me understand:

do you want to know if you're receiving logs from that HF
or do you want to know if the logs passing through the HF arrive to the Indexers?

in the first case run on Search Heads the following search:

(index=_internal OR index=*) host=HF_hostname

If instead your HF is a concentrator and you want to know if logs are passing, list the hosts that are sending logs anche check if there are the correct list of hosts with a simple search on Search Heads:

index=_internal OR index=* | stats count BY host

Ciao.

Giuseppe

Re: Heavy Forwarder iNSTALLED OR NOT

umeshcreddy — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 07:13:54 GMT

@gcusello cant we check in the deployment sever in the forwarder management for the HF_hostname whether deployed or not. I have this doubt can you please confirm

Re: Heavy Forwarder iNSTALLED OR NOT

gcusello — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 17:36:58 GMT

Hi @umeshcreddy,

to check if HF was deployed by Deployment Server is a different thing: it's not relevant Ds to understand if an HF is logging or not.

Ciao and happy splunking.

Giuseppe

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