Deployment Architecture

splunkForwarders in Splunk 6

beepboop12
Explorer

I need to know if the splunkForwarders that we have in place right now, on our current version (5.0.1) will have to be upgraded for/with splunk 6 or if the splunk core is backward compatible. Please respond ASAP.

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gfuente
Motivator

gfuente
Motivator

From docs:

6.0 indexers are backwards compatible with forwarders down to 4.x.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0/Forwarding/Compatibilitybetweenforwardersandindexers

beepboop12
Explorer

Thank you for your timely response.

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