Querying stats from all search heads in pool

[Sqig]

Hi. We are using the new Pooled Search Head feature of Splunk 4.2 and want to do reporting on user activity (logins, etc). With a single search head, this is easy...querying against _internal and _audit returns the desired results.

However, those queries do not return results for other search heads.

In order to gather and coallate data from all search heads in the pool, do I need to actually Splunk the data in /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk so that the indexers have the info?

Or am I missing some nifty internal pooling-of-stats-data feature?

Thanks.

[ewoo · Accepted solution]

For each search head in the pool, add the other members of the pool as distributed search peers. This will allow you to search over the _internal index of the entire pool from any one its members.

You will probably also want to set up mounted bundles so that the bundle replication does not cause the shared configurations to be copied around the pool needlessly. See http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.2.3/Deploy/Mounttheknowledgebundle#Use_mounted_bundles...