Forwarding and receiving pre setup

[gdawoud]

I have a simple Forwarding and receiving setup

2 servers forwarding into a 3rd.

Once everything setup, the receiver started to get data from that point on. My Q is how do i push all the data that is indexed on the forwarder to the receiver before the setup of the "Forwarding and receiving"

[jbsplunk · Accepted solution]

I am not sure I understand your question. However, if you are asking if there is some method of forwarding data to an indexer before it has been set up as a receiver, the answer is No, you've got to set up the indexer as a receiever before any forwarder will be able to send to it.

You could alternatively set up some mechanisms to transfer files periodically to the indexer and set up monitor stanzas for those files, then turn them off after the forwarder has been enabled.

[gdawoud]

You are correct, I got it fixed but setting the install (1&2) to forward to 3 before adding files to server 1&2

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