Indexers on windows and linux for same environment

[sdevadas]

We have 2 indexers running on Windows to monitor our production network. A search head distributes the searches across the 2 indexers.

I am planning to add a third indexer running on Linux.

I am guessing the communication between search head and indexers is isolated from the operating system and so this should not be a problem.

Would there be any problem running the indexers on different operating systems?

Thanks.

[ateterine]

Were you able to mix OS in indexer cluster and if so how did you deal with slashes in index.conf?
Windows uses backward slash "\"
While Linux uses forward "/"

Thanks!

[sroback_splunk]

In indexer cluster environments, the master, search heads, and all cluster peers must run on separate machines, and each machine must be using the same operating system.

For more info, see:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.0/Indexer/Systemrequirements#Summary_of_key_requirem...

[jbsplunk · Accepted solution]

There shouldn't be any problem with running dissimilar environments in terms of the OS platform, so your correct, this should not be a problem.