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Load Balancing

nik_charusat
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Does Universal Forwarder's load balancing work automatically in Distributed architecture without clustering?

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richgalloway
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Load balancing in universal forwarders is automatic. You can control it using the outputs.conf settings autoLBFrequency and autoLBVolume and the props.conf settings EVENT_BREAKER and EVENT_BREAKER_ENABLE.

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nik_charusat
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At what time period It does Load Balancing of Indexers?

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richgalloway
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Load balancing in universal forwarders is automatic. You can control it using the outputs.conf settings autoLBFrequency and autoLBVolume and the props.conf settings EVENT_BREAKER and EVENT_BREAKER_ENABLE.

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nik_charusat
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Can you also explain what forceTimebasedAutoLB = <boolean> exactly do in output.conf file.

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