Who should attend
This 13.5-hour course is for an experienced Splunk Enterprise administrator who is new to Splunk Clusters.
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
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? (WIS)
- 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 courses:
Course Objectives
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.
Course Content
- Large-scale Splunk Deployment Overview
- Identify factors affecting large-scale Splunk deployments
- Set up Splunk indexer clusters
- Deploy and configure a Splunk search head cluster
- Add new nodes into an existing cluster
- Decommission nodes from an existing cluster
- Deploy apps and configuration bundles in Splunk clusters
- Manage KV store collections and lookups in Splunk clusters
- Monitor and identify clustering issues with Monitoring Console
- Scale Splunk indexer cluster with SmartStore
Course Topics:
- Large-scale Splunk Deployment Overview
- Single-site Indexer Cluster
- Multisite 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