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load balancing functionality that comes with the forwarder.??

AzmathShaik
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Hello

can any one guide me how to enable or use load balancing functionality that comes with the forwarder???

does a universal forwarder also has this functionality?? or only heavy forwarder??

i have searched for documents i could not find it

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somesoni2
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This should give you what you need. And yes, the load balancing is available in Universal forwarder.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Forwarding/Configureforwarderswithoutputs.confd#De...

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somesoni2
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This should give you what you need. And yes, the load balancing is available in Universal forwarder.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Forwarding/Configureforwarderswithoutputs.confd#De...

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