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Splunk Architecture with two IP addresses

rubeniturrieta
Communicator

Hi to everyone

It makes sense to have a Splunk Architecture, with machines with two addresses?

For example:

  • 1 Indexer with 1 address for web access, and another address for receive syslog

Another example:

  • 1 indexer with 1 address for web access, and another address for index replication

Thanks in advance

Regards

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Yasaswy
Contributor

Hi.. As long as you have needed flexibility from Networking and Systems administration side, the above setup can be done. I don't think there would be big performance advantages (assuming your network is overall well managed) by this. However from a process/implementation standpoint I can see how this might make things better regulated for certain environments. I would imagine this naturally adds a bit to administrative overhead and will also add additional factors to consider when trouble shooting issues (clustering/data loss).

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Yasaswy
Contributor

Hi.. As long as you have needed flexibility from Networking and Systems administration side, the above setup can be done. I don't think there would be big performance advantages (assuming your network is overall well managed) by this. However from a process/implementation standpoint I can see how this might make things better regulated for certain environments. I would imagine this naturally adds a bit to administrative overhead and will also add additional factors to consider when trouble shooting issues (clustering/data loss).

rubeniturrieta
Communicator

Ok, thanks you Yasaswy

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