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Adding the receiving indexer via outputs.conf

The receiving indexers can be directly added to the outputs.conf configuration file on the Universal Forwarder. Edit $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/outputs.conf, add your input, and then restart the UF. The following example configuration is provided, where two receiving indexers are specified. The [tcpout-server] stanza can be leveraged to add output configurations specific to an individual receiving indexer:

[tcpout] 
defaultGroup = default-autolb-group 
 
[tcpout:default-autolb-group] 
disabled = false 
server = mysplunkindexer1:9997,mysplunkindexer2:9997 
 
[tcpout-server://mysplunkindexer1:9997] 
[tcpout-server://mysplunkindexer2:9997]

If nothing has been configured in inputs.conf on the UF, but

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