I am wanting to monitor multiple clients' networks with my Splunk install. I also need to make sure that the communication between the networks to my Splunk instance is secured. Much of the information I am looking to get is syslog and SNMP data. Would I need to install an indexer locally and then use that to forward the information to my main install? I would then be looking to setup a few dashboards to look at the different clients as well. At this point, I just want to make sure that the information is being transferred across the Internet in a secure manner.
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