In a tiered forwarding architecture, what is the role of the intermediate forwarder?

It stores indexed data for long-term retention

It acts as a load balancer for search requests

It collects data from multiple sources and forwards it to another forwarder or indexer

It provides a web interface for managing forwarders

A Splunk Cloud admin needs to update the configuration of multiple forwarders to monitor a new log file. They want to do this centrally without accessing each forwarder individually. What should they do?

Use the Splunk Cloud API to configure forwarders

Ask the forwarder users to update their configurations

Use a deployment server to push the new configuration

Manually edit the inputs.conf on each forwarder

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In a tiered forwarding architecture, what is the role of the intermediate forwarder?

A Splunk Cloud admin needs to update the configuration of multiple forwarders to monitor a new log file. They want to do this centrally without accessing each forwarder individually. What should they do?

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