receiving

receiving

verb

The act of accepting parsed or unparsed data from a forwarder. In a Splunk Enterprise deployment, the indexer that accepts the data is the receiver. In specific cases, you can use a Heavy Forwarder as a receiver. You can forward data simultaneously from one or many forwarders to a receiver.

For more information

In Fowarding Data:

• About forwarding and receiving
• Intermediate Forwarding