Where to set Splunk HTTP Event collector on which instance of Splunk?
Can I generate this HTTP Event Collector token on the Heavy Forwarder or Search Head?
When the application writes the data to splunk, will it write to the Heavy Forwarder?
Hi sarnagar,
I'm using a cluster of Heavy Forwarders as HEC endpoints and I'm controlling it from master. I set my Heavy Forwarder to be a deployment client and I distribute HEC token from master to all of them !!
You can generate/setup HTTP event Collector on Heavy forwarder. (can do in Search Head too but setting up on HF will reduce additional load on SH).
See "Splunk 6.x Dashboard Examples" (Ver 6.0)
https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1603/
In the dashboard, you can find "Default Environment Tokens".
I didn't try, but it looks worth while to try.
For example: $env:instance_type$ = Splunk instance types