Deployment Architecture

Recommended Number of Forwarders

phainlen
Explorer

Would it be wise to set up redundant forwarders or is one sufficient?

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rturk
Builder

Hi phainlen,

It's really going to come down to what your high-availbility & fault tolerance requirements are. I put a rundown of possible redundant configurations in this post: http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/52381/forwarder-redundancy

Hope it's of some help.

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