Efficient way to search splunk_server in pre-6.x Splunk?

[the_wolverine]

I'm looking for a way to find out which splunk_server contains data for my index for older versions of Splunk. tstats doesn't work and metadata is lacking for splunk_server.

Any suggestions?

[the_wolverine · Accepted solution]

| metasearch index=* | stats count by index,splunk_server