Course Overview
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.
Please note that this class may run over three days, with 4.5 hour sessions each day.
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
To be successful, students should have a solid understanding of the following modules:
- Splunk Fundamentals 1 (Retired)
- Splunk Fundamentals 2 (Retired)
Or the following single-subject modules:
- What is Splunk? (Retired)
- Intro to Splunk (ITS)
- Using Fields (SUF)
- Scheduling Reports & Alerts (SRA)
- Visualizations (SVZ)
- Leveraging Lookups and Subsearches (LLS)
- Search Under the Hood (SUH)
- Intro to Knowledge Objects (IKO)
- Creating Knowledge Objects (CKO)
- Enriching Data with Lookups (EDL)
- Data Models (SDM)
- Introduction to Dashboards (ITD)
Student should also have completed the following modules:
Course 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
Outline: Splunk Enterprise Cluster Administration (SCLA)
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