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arrangineni
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04-03-2019
02:29 PM
Can anyone clarify if Splunk Deployment server and Indexer connects to Universal forwarder using hostname or IP address. How can we find that?
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sbattista09
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04-03-2019
07:15 PM
the UF will reach out to the deployment server with deploymentclient.conf
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.5/Admin/Deploymentclientconf
[deployment-client]
phoneHomeIntervalInSecs = 500
[target-broker:deploymentServer]
# Change the targetUri
targetUri = here it can be IP OR FQDN over what ever port you have set the default it 8089 i think.
The UF will send logs to indexers with outputs.conf
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.5/Admin/Outputsconf
[tcpout]
defaultGroup = splunkgroup
[tcpout:splunkgroup]
server= here it can be IP OR FQDN over what ever port you have set the default is 9997 indexer1.example.com:9997, indexer2.example.com:99978, indexer3.example.com:9997
autoLB = true
autoLBFrequency = 7
forceTimebasedAutoLB = true
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sbattista09
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04-03-2019
07:15 PM
the UF will reach out to the deployment server with deploymentclient.conf
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.5/Admin/Deploymentclientconf
[deployment-client]
phoneHomeIntervalInSecs = 500
[target-broker:deploymentServer]
# Change the targetUri
targetUri = here it can be IP OR FQDN over what ever port you have set the default it 8089 i think.
The UF will send logs to indexers with outputs.conf
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.5/Admin/Outputsconf
[tcpout]
defaultGroup = splunkgroup
[tcpout:splunkgroup]
server= here it can be IP OR FQDN over what ever port you have set the default is 9997 indexer1.example.com:9997, indexer2.example.com:99978, indexer3.example.com:9997
autoLB = true
autoLBFrequency = 7
forceTimebasedAutoLB = true
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arrangineni
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04-03-2019
08:31 PM
Thanks for the clarification.
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