How to disable indexing on search head cluster members?

[rajeev_ku]

Hi,

I recently deployed a search head cluster and indexer cluster and integrated.
How I can disable indexing on search head cluster members? Is there any workaround without making an entry in outputs.conf?

Thanks
Rajeev

[Masa]

Curious.
What is a use case you want to avoid making use of outputs.conf to forwarding SHC logs?

[rajeev_ku]

I don't want to index data from SHC neither on SH nor on other Indexers. I will monitor SHC from other monitoring tools.

[renjith_nair]

Even though you don't want any monitoring data, it's highly suggested to forward the internal logs at least since it contain a lot of metrics which will help you in troubleshooting

[Masa]

Agree with renjith.nair for a good practice.
Monitoring SH by other monitoring tool is most likely different from keeping logs of splunk instance for logging behavior of Splunk instance including splunkweb, kvstore, splunkd etc. So, you cannot really monitor Splunk SH in SHC making use of DMC feature without indexing such logs. You cannot create useful correlation searches etc. Anyway, that's an interesting reason.

[gcusello]

You can do it also using web interface:
Settings -- Forwarder and Receiving -- Configure Forward

Bye.
Giuseppe

[renjith_nair · Accepted solution]

You can disable indexing and forward the data to indexers from search head.

Please refer : https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.2/Admin/Outputsconf#IndexAndForward_Processor-----

[indexAndForward]
index = [true|false]
* If set to true, data is indexed.
* If set to false, data is not indexed.
* Default depends on whether the Splunk instance is configured as a
  forwarder, modified by any value configured for the indexAndForward
  attribute in [tcpout].