Deployment Architecture

How to configure search head and indexers in a Unix environment?

abhishekdharga
Engager

Hi All,

I need to configure the one Splunk server as Search head and another 2 standalone machines as indexers in distributed environment.
Can some one guide me how I can do that.
I already installed the Splunk enterprise on my Unix machine and its up and running but I am not sure how I can make that to work as search head and point the other 2 machine as indexers machine to this search head.
Please help me.

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jcrabb_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

This is a pretty broad topic but I would recommend reviewing the following document which will guide you with configuring a distributed environment:

Jacob
Sr. Technical Support Engineer
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