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Getting Data In

Can I use the universal forwarder 4.2 to send data to an indexer running Splunk 4.1.7 (or older) ?

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Yes, see docs at http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Deploy/Deploymentoverview.

The universal forwarder is backwards compatible with older Splunk indexers. You can forward data to any Splunk indexers, version 3.4.14 or above.

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Yes, see docs at http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Deploy/Deploymentoverview.

The universal forwarder is backwards compatible with older Splunk indexers. You can forward data to any Splunk indexers, version 3.4.14 or above.

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