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dedicated log collector setup and licensing

michal-trawczynski — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:51:44 GMT

hi,

I am preparing a new environment (my plan is for 2x management only + 2x log collector only) and have no experience with dedicated lot collectors yet. Please help me to clarify few things:
- log collector for sure needs licenses, are they the same like for management only ?

- can i stack log collectors to get more storage? If so, logs are load balanced between node or what?

Re: dedicated log collector setup and licensing

reaper — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:14:01 GMT

Collectors do need licenses

Collectors are put in collector groups, you can either set them to 'join forces' and spread the logs amongst themselves , which to panorama will look like one source, or duplicate _everything_ for extreme redundancy

But you can just put the 2 collectors in 1 group and it will look like one database