Deployment Architecture

Indexer Discovery on Heavy Forwarder

kevingunn
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Is it possible to enable indexerDiscovery on a Heavy Forwarder? I followed instructions here (http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.6.2/Indexer/indexerdiscovery), but haven't been able to get it to work. If I check https://localhost:8000/services/server/info on a heavy forwarder, it just lists the server role as kv_store, which to me tells me the indexerDiscovery is not working. If I manually add indexer peers as a forwarder server, the server role is correctly updated to reflect heavyweight_forwarder.

I don't see anything in the logs that points to any issues. Is there a way to check the status of a heavy forwarder or the status of indexer discovery (IE: list indexers that were discovered)?

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