What is F5 data and how do we identify this on a heavy forwarder?

[Rocky31]

My head is going to blow up. What is f5 data, how to identify this on a Splunk heavy forwarder and make sure the heavy forwarder is configured?

[lguinn2 · Accepted solution]

F5 is a company that sells devices and software for a variety of purposes: front end load balancing, network traffic management, etc.
http://f5.com/

If you have any of these devices or software, you can use Splunk to analyze the log/status information. If you don't, then you don't have F5 data. Splunkbase contains some free apps that can help you do this with Splunk.