Compatibility between forwarders and indexers

[AaronMoorcroft]

Hi Guys,

I could do with upgrading all our forwarders, mainly 5.0.2 on Windows to the latest forwarder build 6.2.2, the potential issue being that our indexer is 5.0.2. This will be upgraded also but not for a while, so my question is if I go ahead and upgrade the current forwarders from 5.0.2 up to 6.2.2 will they continue to work with a 5.0.2 Indexer ?

Thank you

[jeffland]

It shouldn't be a problem to use 6.x forwarders with 5.x indexers, based on this documentation.

[MuS · Accepted solution]

Hi AaronMoorcroft,

check the docs http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Forwarding/Compatibilitybetweenforwardersandindexe... where you can find the following statement:

 6.x forwarders (universal/light/heavy) are backwards compatible down to 5.0.x indexers.

Hope that helps ...

cheers, MuS

[jeffland]

Meh, you were seconds faster... 🙂

[AaronMoorcroft]

cheers pal 🙂

[AaronMoorcroft]

That's spot on, thank you very much for that, now I guess I have some work to do :$