This 18-hour course is designed for administrators who are responsible for getting data into Splunk Indexers. The course provides the fundamental knowledge of Splunk forwarders and methods to get remote data into Splunk indexers. It covers installation, configuration, management, monitoring, and troubleshooting of Splunk forwarders and Splunk Deployment Server components

Description

• Understand sourcetypes
• Manage and deploy forwarders
• Configure data inputs
• Fire monitors
• Network inputs (TCP/UDP)
• Scripted inputs
• HTTP inputs (via the HTTP Event Collector)
• Customize the input phase parsing process
• Define transformations to modify data before indexing
• Define search time knowledge object configurations

To be successful, students should have a solid understanding of the following courses:

• What Is Splunk?
• Intro to Splunk
• Using Fields
• Introduction to Knowledge Objects
• Creating Knowledge Objects
• Creating Field Extractions
  

OR the following courses:

• Splunk Fundamentals 1
• Splunk Fundamentals 2 (recommended)

Students should also have understand the following course:

• Splunk Enterprise System Administration (recommended)

Module 1 - Getting Data Into Splunk

Provide an overview of Splunk

Describe the Splunk distributed model

Describe data input types and metadata settings

Configure initial input testing with Splunk Web

Testing indexes with Input Staging

Module 2 - Configuration Files and Apps

Identify Splunk configuration files and directories

Describe index-time and search-time precedence

Validate and update configuration files

Explore Splunk apps and app installation

Module 3 - Configuring Forwarders

Configure Universal Forwarders

Configure Heavy Forwarders

Module 4 - Customizing Forwarders

Configure intermediate forwarders

Identify additional forwarder options

Module 5 - Managing Forwarders

Describe Splunk Deployment Server (DS)

Manage forwarders using deployment apps

Configure deployment clients and client groups

Monitor forwarder management activities

Module 6 - Monitor Inputs

Create file and directory monitor inputs

Use optional settings for monitor inputs

Deploy a remote monitor input

Module 7 - Network Inputs

Create network (TCP and UDP) inputs

Describe optional settings for network inputs

Module 8 - Scripted Inputs

Create a basic scripted input

Module 9 - Agentless Inputs

Configure Splunk HTTP Event Collector (HEC) agentless input

Describe Splunk App for Stream

Module 10 - Operating System Inputs

Identify Linux-specific inputs

Identify Windows-specific inputs

Module 11 - Fine-tuning Inputs

Understand the default processing that occurs during input phase

Configure input phase options, such as source type fine-tuning and character set encoding

Module 12 - Parsing Phase and Data Preview

Understand the default processing that occurs during parsing

Optimize and configure event line breaking

Explain how timestamps and time zones are extracted or assigned to events

Use Data Preview to validate event creation during parsing phase

Module 13 - Manipulating Input Data

Explore Splunk transformation methods

Create rulesets with Ingest Actions

Mask data with Ingest Actions rules

Mask data with SEDCMD and TRANSFORMS

Module 14 - Routing Input Data

Filter data with Ingest Action rules

Route data with Ingest Action rules

Route data with Transforms

Override sourcetype or host based upon event values

Module 15 - Supporting Knowledge Objects

Define default and custom search time field extractions

Identify the pros and cons of indexed time field extractions

Configure indexed field extractions

Describe default search time extractions

Manage orphaned knowledge objects