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What configuration settings are used by universal forwarders?

Lowell
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Does anyone have a specific listing of what configuration options are honored by the universal forwarder and which ones are not?

I know that parsing and merging happens at the indexer (or intermediate heavy forwarder), but I'm not sure about all the other settings. I read somewhere that the CHARSET has to be set on the universal forwarder, but is that the only one?

I thought a found this in the docs or in a post at one point, but I can't seem to find that information again.

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lguinn2
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lguinn2
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Were you thinking of this wiki article?

Where do I configure my Splunk settings?

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