Which of the following will cause the greatest reduction in disk size requirements for a cluster of N indexers running Splunk Enterprise Security?
A. Setting the cluster search factor to N-1.
B. Increasing the number of buckets per index.
C. Decreasing the data model acceleration range.
D. Setting the cluster replication factor to N-1.
When using the props.conf LINE_BREAKER attribute to delimit multi-line events, the SHOULD_LINEMERGE attribute should be set to what?
A. Auto
B. None
C. True
D. False
Which of the following should be included in a deployment plan?
A. Business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
B. Current logging details and data source inventory.
C. Current and future topology diagrams of the IT environment.
D. A comprehensive list of stakeholders, either direct or indirect.
Which of the following are client filters available in serverclass.conf? (Select all that apply.)
A. DNS name.
B. IP address.
C. Splunk server role.
D. Platform (machine type).
In an existing Splunk environment, the new index buckets that are created each day are about half the size of the incoming data. Within each bucket, about 30% of the space is used for rawdata and about 70% for index files.
What additional information is needed to calculate the daily disk consumption, per indexer, if indexer clustering is implemented?
A. Total daily indexing volume, number of peer nodes, and number of accelerated searches.
B. Total daily indexing volume, number of peer nodes, replication factor, and search factor.
C. Total daily indexing volume, replication factor, search factor, and number of search heads.
D. Replication factor, search factor, number of accelerated searches, and total disk size across cluster.
Which of the following artifacts are included in a Splunk diag file? (Select all that apply.)
A. OS settings.
B. Internal logs.
C. Customer data.
D. Configuration files.
At which default interval does metrics.log generate a periodic report regarding license utilization?
A. 10 seconds
B. 30 seconds
C. 60 seconds
D. 300 seconds
A new Splunk customer is using syslog to collect data from their network devices on port 514. What is the best practice for ingesting this data into Splunk?
A. Configure syslog to send the data to multiple Splunk indexers.
B. Use a Splunk indexer to collect a network input on port 514 directly.
C. Use a Splunk forwarder to collect the input on port 514 and forward the data.
D. Configure syslog to write logs and use a Splunk forwarder to collect the logs.
A search head has successfully joined a single site indexer cluster. Which command is used to configure the same search head to join another indexer cluster?
A. splunk add cluster-config
B. splunk add cluster-master
C. splunk edit cluster-config
D. splunk edit cluster-master
Which of the following statements describe search head clustering? (Select all that apply.)
A. A deployer is required.
B. At least three search heads are needed.
C. Search heads must meet the high-performance reference server requirements.
D. The deployer must have sufficient CPU and network resources to process service requests and push configurations.