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Is there a sample configuration available for intermediate forwarding? (application servers -> intermediate forwarder -> indexers)

sravankaripe
Communicator

In my use case, I need to forward logs from application servers to intermediate forwarders, then from the intermediate forwarder to Splunk Indexers. Can anybody help me in providing a sample configuration file for this?

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

See this (old post but you can refer to latest documentation for each step)

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/10429/is-there-an-example-configuration-available-for-an-intermed...

Basically

Setup Forwarding on Universal forwarder (installed on your application servers) - (should forward to your Intermediate forwarder) http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Forwarding/EnableforwardingonaSplunkEnterpriseinst...
Setup Receiving and Forwarding on Intermediate forwarder : (should forwarder to Indexers) http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Forwarding/Configureanintermediateforwarder
Setup Receiving on Indexer: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Forwarder/6.4.3/Forwarder/Enableareceiver

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