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setup heavy forwarder and making it a deployment client

teddyidc1101
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hello, we are trying to setup HF with multi NIC feature and we wanted to know the steps as we also need to make the HF as one of the deployment client. thanks!

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HiroshiSatoh
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The following is the document.
The configuration of the deployment client is the same for both UF and HF.

Deploy a heavy forwarder
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.0/Forwarding/Deployaheavyforwarder

Configure deployment clients
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.0/Updating/Configuredeploymentclients

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