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federated.conf

The following are the spec and example files for federated.conf.

federated.conf.spec

   Version 8.0.1

 This file contains possible setting and value pairs for federated provider entries
 for use in Data Fabric Search (DFS), when the federated search functionality is
 enabled.

 A federated search allows authorized users to run searches across multiple federated
 providers. Only Splunk deployments are supported as federated providers. Information
 on the Splunk deployment (i.e. the federated provider) is added in the federated
 provider stanza of the federated.conf file. A federated search deployment can have
 multiple federated search datasets. The settings for federated search dataset stanzas
 are located in savedsearches.conf.

 To learn more about configuration files (including precedence) please see the
 documentation located at
 http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Aboutconfigurationfiles

 Here are the settings for the federated provider stanzas.

[<federated-provider-stanza>]

* Create a unique stanza name for each federated provider.

type = [splunk]
* Specifies the type of the federated provider.
* Only Splunk deployments are supported as of this revision.
* Default: splunk

ip = <IP address>
* Identifies the IP address of the federated provider.
* Default: No default.

splunk.port = <port>
* Identifies the splunkd REST port on the remote Splunk deployment.
* Default: No default.

splunk.serviceAccount = <user>
* Identifies an authorized user on the remote Splunk deployment.
* The security credentials associated with this account are managed securely in
  fshpasswords.conf.
* Default: No default.

splunk.app = <string>
* The name of the Splunk application on the remote Splunk deployment in which
* to perform the search.
* Default: No default.

federated.conf.example

#   Version 8.0.1
#
# This is an example federated.conf.
#
#
## Federated Providers

[deployment-sf-search]
type = splunk
ip = 192.0.2.0
splunk.port = 8089
splunk.serviceAccount = sf-search
splunk.app = search

[deployment-sf-hr]
type = splunk
ip = 192.0.2.0
splunk.port = 8089
splunk.serviceAccount = sf-hr
splunk.app = search

[deployment-sr-search]
type = splunk
ip = 198.51.100.0
splunk.port = 8089
splunk.serviceAccount = sf-search
splunk.app = search

Last modified on 13 December, 2019
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 8.0.1


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