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Will my outputs.conf edits work to send both compressed and uncompressed outputs from universal forwarder?

dahlberg
New Member

I have a Universal Forwarder (UF) that I'd like to send out both compressed and uncompressed data streams to a single indexer. Would this outputs.conf work:

[tcpout]
defaultGroup = index_cluster, index_cluster2

[tcpout:index_cluster]
autoLBFrequency=60
autoLB=true
useACK=true
compressed=true
server=indexer:9996

[tcpout:index_cluster2]
compressed=false
server=indexer:9997

Also, how would I specify which files/data streams should go out to targetGroup index_cluster and which ones should go out to index_cluster2?

Thanks,
Mike

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yes, they will work this way.

This is saying by default, send to both.

If you want to specify a target specific to an input use _TCP_ROUTING=name of tcpout on you inputs.conf stanza(s)

For example

[monitor::/var/log/logfile]
...
_TCP_ROUTING=index_cluster2

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yes, they will work this way.

This is saying by default, send to both.

If you want to specify a target specific to an input use _TCP_ROUTING=name of tcpout on you inputs.conf stanza(s)

For example

[monitor::/var/log/logfile]
...
_TCP_ROUTING=index_cluster2

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