Does a heavy forwarder require a license?

[jialiu907]

I am looking to place a heavy forwarder in Azure have it forward events/data to the main indexer with one method using http token. The heavy forwarder will just be used to forward data and not index or search.

I am asking will the HF need its own license/how will it relate to the license server?

[deepakc · Accepted solution]

As data will route via the Heavy forwarder it needs to communicate with your License Manager (LM) Server. So it doesn't need its own licence, you just need to point the HF to the LM.