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Heavy forwarder - Syslog forwarder

zidekm
New Member

Hi,

it is possible to configure HWF just to receive and forward syslog without indexing data?

If i do configuration like this and HWF is not configured to forward data into Indexers splunk, HWF splunk instance start indexing data and use data license.

Sebastian

inputs.conf

[default]
host = splunkfwd

[udp://192.168.130.100:2514]
_SYSLOG_ROUTING = syslog-data

outputs.conf

[syslog]
defaultGroup = syslog-data

[syslog:syslog-data]
server = 192.168.130.200:514
type = udp
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zidekm
New Member

I don't want to send data to indexer, i just want forward syslog message to another splunk due to firewall limitation i cannot use TCP connection.

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thomrs
Communicator

Yes this is doable, set up forwarding on your HF.

/en-US/manager/wx/forwardreceive

and all data will go to your indexer. This can also be set via a splunk cmd as well.

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