Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments

CODE: SPL_ASED

LENGTH: 2,96 Hours (0,37 days)

PRICE: €1 500,00

Description

This nine-hour course focuses on large enterprise deployments. Students will learn steps and best practices for planning, data collection and sizing for a distributed deployment. Workshop-style labs challenge students to make design decisions about an example enterprise deployment.

Objectives

  • Requirements definition
  • Index and resource planning
  • Clustering Overview
  • Forwarder and Deployment
  • Integration
  • Performance Monitoring and Tuning
  • Use Cases

Programme

Module 1 – Introduction

  • Overview of the Splunk deployment planning process and associated tools

Module 2 – Project Requirements

  • Identify critical information about environment, volume, users, and requirements
  • Review checklists and resources to aid in collecting requirements
  • Module 3 – Infrastructure Planning: Index Design

    • Design and size indexes
    • Estimate storage requirements
    • Identify relevant apps
    • Module 4 – Infrastructure Planning: Resource Planning

      • List sizing factors for servers
      • Describe how reference hardware is used to scale deployments
      • Identify the impact of clustering for index replication and for search heads
      • Module 5 - Clustering Overview

        • Describe the different clustering capabilities
        • Introduce the concepts of indexer and search head clustering
        • Module 6 - Forwarder and Deployment Best Practices

          • Review types of forwarders
          • Describe how to manage forwarder installation
          • Review configuration management for all Splunk components, using Splunk deployment tools
          • Provide best practices for a Splunk deployment
          • Module 7 - Integration

            • Describe integration methods
            • Identify common integration points
            • Module 8 – Performance Monitoring and Tuning

              • Use the Monitoring Console to track the performance of your test environment
              • List options to fine tune performance for production environment
              • Module 9 – Use Cases

                • Provide example architecture topologies
                • Discuss different architecture options based on use case
                • Session Dates