Forward Multiple SEMs to One Location

Question

We have 2 SEM installs in our environment because of network constraints and latency. A 500 and a 100.

Is there any way to get the SEM 100 to send it's events to the SEM 500 so that we can build an overall dashboard and only check one place instead of logging into 2 websites?

nstanley · Accepted Answer

Response from Support:

So it is possible to forward logs from one SEM to another. However it's terribly inefficient as the raw logging must be enabled on the forwarding SEM and the
receiving SEM will be getting double the traffic.

Rules do not fire on raw (unnormalized) log data. Rules can only fire on normalized data.

Raw (unnormalized) log messages do not appear in Monitor view in the console.

If you enable original log storage (raw database storage), and you enable connectors to send data to both databases, SEM storage requirements may double for the same retention period, and extra resource reservations of at least two additional CPUs and 8-16GB of RAM may be required.

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/SEM/Content/Admin_Guide/New_In_6_5/SEM-Log-Forwarding.htm
https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Forward-events-from-LEM