indexer acknowledgement and cascaded forwarders

[ndcl]

Hi Base,
short Question: If you have fe. 2 Forwarders in a row and sending data from the first over the second to the indexer. Does useACK work when activated on the first FW and what is the inpact if not?

Thanks!!

[kristian_kolb · Accepted solution]

Two options, see the dox:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.2/Deploy/Protectagainstlossofin-flightdata#When_the_...

/K

[ndcl]

Thanks for this !