Universal forwarder deployment prerequisites

Before you can deploy the universal forwarder, see the following universal forwarder prerequisites sections:

• Decide if you want to use the Splunk deployment server
• Computer hardware requirements
• Compatible operating systems

Decide if you want to use the Splunk deployment server

To personalize how data is sent to the indexer, you edit the universal forwarder's configuration files. Through the deployment server, you can edit multiple universal forwarders at once by manually editing a single file. See About deployment server and forwarder management in the Updating Splunk Enterprise Instances manual.

Computer hardware requirements

The universal forwarder has the following minimum processing, RAM, and disk space requirements:

Component	Required space
Processing	1.5Ghz
RAM	512MB
Free Disk Space	5GB

Compatible operating systems

For compatible operating systems, see Supported operating systems in the Splunk Enterprise Installation manual.