Splunk
Splunk Enterprise Cluster Administration
The course provides the fundamental knowledge of deploying and managing Splunk Enterprise in a clustered environment.
Please note that this class has 13.5 hours of content and may run over three days, with 4.5 hour sessions each day.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Version
- 9.3
- Duration
- 2 days
- Language
- EN
- Course code
- SP-SCLA
Audience
Splunk administrators.
Prerequisites
To be successful, students must have completed these Splunk Education course(s) or have equivalent working knowledge:
- Intro to Splunk
- Using Fields (SUF)
- Introduction to Knowledge Objects
- Creating Knowledge Objects (CKO)
- Creating Field Extractions (CFE)
- Splunk Enterprise System Administration (SESA)
- Splunk Enterprise Data Administration (SEDA)
- Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise (TSE)
Additional courses and/or knowledge in these areas are also highly recommended:
Outline
Module 1 – Overview of Large-scale Splunk Deployment
- Identify factors that affect large-scale deployment design
- Describe approaches to scaling Splunk Enterprise
- Configure Splunk License Manager
Module 2 – Deploying Single-site Indexer Clusters
- Identify indexer cluster states
- Define replication factor and search factor
- Implement a single-site indexer cluster
Module 3 – Deploying Multisite Indexer Clusters
- Define site replication factor and site search factor
- Define search affinity
- Implement a multisite indexer cluster
Module 4 – Updating Indexer Cluster Peer Configurations
- Distribute configurations and apps across peers
Module 5 - Managing and Monitoring Indexer Clusters
- Enable replication for clustered indexes
- Configure Monitoring Console for indexer cluster environment
Module 6 – Configuring Indexer Discovery on Forwarders
- Configure indexer discovery
- Configure indexer acknowledgment
- Configure forwarder site failover
Module 7 – Deploying Search Head Cluster
- Configure a search head cluster
- Connect clustered and non-clustered indexers
Module 8 – Managing and Monitoring Search Head Clusters
- Deploy configuration bundles to search head cluster members
- Manage captaincy and member addition, removal and upgrades
Module 9 – Using KV Store in a Search Head Cluster
- Enable KV Store collection replication in a search head cluster
- Monitor KV Store status with Monitoring Console