Indexer auto-discovery
Splunk 6.3 introduced a %very usable and important feature for distributed environments. This feature simplifies forwarder management, which automatically detects new peer nodes in a cluster, and thus, load balancing is handled by itself.
Example
Let us understand the %use of indexer auto-discovery using the following cluster example image. The following image shows forwarders sending data to peer nodes. The peer node list and other relevant messages are being communicated from the cluster master to the forwarders:
The following are the uses/advantages of indexer auto-discovery:
- There is no need %for configuration on forwarders ...
Get Splunk: Enterprise Operational Intelligence Delivered now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
