Deployment Architecture

Splunk 4.1.7: How to disable index database locally on Lightweight forwarders?

vchin111
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We have installed splunk 4.1.7 on linux servers and configured/enabled light weight forwarder to index logs from application/web servers to central splunk index server. By default, splunk is creating 500MB of database when splunk is installed. Since we have enabled lightweight forwarder on spluk clients (application/web servers), it should not index data locally on any of these clients, so how do we disable/reduce the database sizes on splunk clients( where light weight forwarders are enabled)?

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Takajian
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As you know, Splunk Lightweight forwarder does not have index data. You do not need to care about indexed data size.
Enabling Lightweight forwarder means disabling storing data on forwarder.

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