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Do sinkholes work on forwarders?

Michael_Wilde
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Splunk Employee
‎03-29-2010 03:37 PM

Does a sinkhole work on all types of forwarders?

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gkanapathy
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‎03-29-2010 03:57 PM

By "sinkhole", I assume you mean the ability to copy a file into $SPLUNK_HOME/var/spool/splunk, and have it indexed then automatically deleted by Splunk. Yes, it is enabled on both heavy (SplunkForwarder) and light (SplunkLightForwarder) forwarders.

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