REST API Modular input app and Distributed deployment

[be910j]

Curious if anyone has found a good way to deal with this issue.

I currently have a distributed deployment with 6 active Indexers. Currently testing the REST API Modular Input app on a single instance test box and its working great but I want to move it over to my prod environment now and put it into our distributed model.
With just the polling model and no cron option (that I saw) is there a way I can keep the data distributed across my multi indexers easily or is it more along the lines of using a single box to make the initial grab/index and forward that data over to my indexer farm for distribution, or maybe setting the polling time on each indexer in such a way that they won't overlap, though Im not sure what kind of combination that would be and would prob grow to be quite complex I would assume?Heavy forwarder and a dedicated API Collection server- VM maybe? Just wandering if there was a preferred method or what people have found success with.

Cheers,
Brandon

[Damien_Dallimor]

There's no distributed co-ordination logic in the REST API Modular Input , so they way you have approached it is probably the best option.

[be910j · Accepted solution]

Well just to post a follow up here, while I'm not positive if it's the best way, I ended up building a heavy forwarder to do all the work and send the cooked data over to my indexers, so far seems to be working ok.

-brandon