Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Practice Test

Can an Event Collector be set up on a Universal Forwarder?

1. True

2. False

3. Only in special circumstances

4. Only for testing purposes

The correct answer is: False

An Event Collector cannot be set up on a Universal Forwarder, as Universal Forwarders are designed primarily for data forwarding. They have a minimal footprint and are focused on collecting and sending log data to the indexers in a Splunk deployment, without the additional overhead of managing other functionalities like event collection. Event Collectors, which are responsible for receiving data via HTTP or HTTPS, require additional capabilities that are not supported by the Universal Forwarder. Instead, these capabilities are typically found on Heavy Forwarders or indexers, which are equipped to handle the HTTP event collection feature along with the necessary configurations for data processing and management. This distinction is crucial for optimizing your Splunk environment since it affects the way data is managed and ingested. Therefore, the structure and purpose of the Universal Forwarder define its limitations regarding event collection functionalities.