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Do I need to set up my search head or one of my indexers as my deployment server to deploy and manage universal forwarder configurations?

benafo
Explorer

I just set up 2 indexers and 1 search head. I need to use a deployment server to manage and deploy configurations across my universal forwarder. Do I need to set up the search head as my deployment server, or use one of the indexers? A quick response will be highly appreciated from any SPLUNKER.....

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MuS
Legend

Hi benafo,

It may look like an over-head right now, but since the number of universale forwarders will grow over time consider to get a dedicated small VM to be the deployment server. You can start as well on the search head and get the dedicated VM later....

Hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

MuS
Legend

PS: the reason for the deployment server on a VM, is to be able to scale up later ....

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