Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Splunk 9.0 Cluster Administration

CODE: SPL_SCLUA9

LENGTH: 24 Hours (3 days)

PRICE: €1 500,00

Description

This 3-virtual day course is for an experienced Splunk Enterprise administrator who is new to Splunk Clusters. The course provides the fundamental knowledge of deploying and managing Splunk Enterprise in a clustered environment. It covers installation, configuration, management, and monitoring of Splunk clusters. While Splunk Clusters are supported in Windows environments, the class lab environment is running Linux instances only.

Objectives

  • Large-scale Splunk Deployment Overview
  • Single-site Indexer Cluster
  • Indexer Cluster Management and Administration
  • Forwarder Configuration
  • Search Head Cluster
  • Search Head Cluster Management and Administration
  • KV Store Collection and Lookup Management
  • SmartStore Implementation Overview

Prerequisites

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

  • Splunk Fundamentals 1
  • Splunk Fundamentals 2

OR the following single-subject courses:

  • What Is Splunk?
  • Intro to Splunk
  • Using Fields
  • Scheduling Reports and Alerts
  • Visualizations
  • Leveraging Lookups and Subsearches
  • Search Under the Hood
  • Introduction to Knowledge Objects
  • Creating Knowledge Objects
  • Enriching Data with Lookups
  • Data Models
  • Introduction to Dashboards
  • Students should also have completed the following courses:

    • Splunk System Administration
    • Splunk Data Administration
    • Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise
    • Programme

      Module 1 – Splunk Troubleshooting Methods and Tools

      • Deployment Design Factors
      • How Splunk Enterprise can scale
      • Splunk License Master
      • Splunk 9.0 Security

      Module 2 – Single-site Indexer Cluster

      • How Splunk Single-Site Indexer Clusters Work
      • Indexer Cluster Components and Terms
      • Splunk single-site Indexer Cluster Configuration
      • Splunk Indexer Cluster Log Channels
      • Module 3 – Multisite Indexer Cluster

        • How Splunk Multisite Indexer Clusters Work
        • Multisite Indexer Cluster Terms
        • Multisite Indexer Cluster Configuration
        • Optional Multisite Indexer Cluster Configurations
        • Module 4 – Indexer Cluster Management and Administration

          • Peer Offline and Decommission
          • Master App Bundles
          • Indexer Cluster Storage Utilization Options
          • Site Mapping
          • Monitoring Console for Indexer Cluster Environment
          • Cluster Manager Redundancy
          • Module 5 – Forwarder Management

            • Indexer Discovery
            • Optional Indexer Discovery Configurations
            • Volume-Based Forwarder Load Balancing
            • Module 6 – Search Head Cluster

              • Search Head Cluster Architecture
              • Search Head Cluster Configuration
              • Captaincy Identification and Cluster Status
              • Search Head Cluster Settings
              • Module 7 – Search Head Cluster Management

                • Search Head Cluster Deployer
                • Captaincy Transfer
                • Search Head Member Addition and Decommissioning
                • Monitoring Console for Search Head Cluster
                • Module 8 – KV Store Collection and Lookup Management

                  • KV Store Collection in Splunk Clusters
                  • KV Store Monitoring with Monitoring Console
                  • Module 9 – Introduction to Smart Store

                    • SmartStore Deployment Use Cases
                    • SmartStore Architecture Overview
                    • Enable SmartStore in Indexer Cluster
                    • Monitor SmartStore Status
                    • Session Dates