Deployment Architecture

Heavy Forwarders Query

carlosvalcarcel
New Member

I have found different articles that query and return information about universal forwarders. But I am trying to get a list of heavy forwarders that the splunk system has. Does anyone have a simple script that would give me a list of all heavy forwarders. 

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carlosvalcarcel
New Member

unfortunately my logs don't go back long enough. I try the query but since my logs don't go back that far it does not provide me with information. 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

If your logs go back far enough to capture when the HFs started then this may get you started.

index=_internal component=ServerRoles "Declared role" 
| stats values(role) as roles by host
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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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