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Searching across clustered and standalone indexers

606866581
Path Finder

Hi,
I've been reading related questions on this topic but I fear they're outdated as of 6.3.

Can I configure a search head to search across, say, 2 clusters and 2 standalone indexers?
I'm struggling to find documentation that confirms or disproves this possibility.

Thank you

EDIT : I should point out that we plan to use the 2 standalone indexers to manage the 2 clusters.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

The searching across multiple indexer clusters is configured by method described here
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Configuremulti-clustersearch#By_editing_s...

Below link should give you how to then add the non-clustered/standalone Indexers.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Configureclusteredandnonclusteredsearch

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

The searching across multiple indexer clusters is configured by method described here
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Configuremulti-clustersearch#By_editing_s...

Below link should give you how to then add the non-clustered/standalone Indexers.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Configureclusteredandnonclusteredsearch

606866581
Path Finder

I can't believe I missed it, It was right there! Thanks for your time

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jmallorquin
Builder

Yes,

Just configure in the search peers in case of cluster one indexer of the cluster (to not duplicate events) and the standalone servers.

Hope i help you

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606866581
Path Finder

I'm not sure how that would appear in server.conf. http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Configuremulti-clustersearch doesn't mention how standalone servers are taken into consideration.

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jmallorquin
Builder

In the clusters how many servers do you have?

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606866581
Path Finder

4, and each cluster will be managed by the 2 standalone indexers. This adds another level of complexity unfortunately

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jmallorquin
Builder

And the replication factor?

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606866581
Path Finder

2, search factor 2. But would this make a difference?

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