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Splunk System Administration

Course outline

3 days

Duration

3 days

Module 1 – Splunk Developer Overview

  • Splunk overview
  • Identify Splunk components
  • Identify Splunk system administrator role

Module 2 – License Management

  • Identify license types
  • Describe license violations
  • Add and remove licenses

Module 3 – Splunk Apps

  • Describe Splunk apps and add-ons
  • Install an app on a Splunk instance
  • Manage app accessibility and permissions

Module 4 – Splunk Configuration Files

  • Describe Splunk configuration directory structure
  • Understand configuration layering process
  • Use btool to examine configuration settings

Module 5 – Splunk Indexes

  • Describe index structure
  • List types of index buckets
  • Create new indexes
  • Monitor indexes with Monitoring Console

Module 6 – Deleting And Backing Up Data

  • Apply a data retention policy
  • Backup data on indexers
  • Delete data from an index
  • Restore frozen data

Module 7 – Splunk User Management

  • Describe user roles in Splunk
  • Create a custom role
  • Add Splunk users

Module 8 – Getting Data In

  • Describe the basic settings for an input
  • List Splunk forwarder types
  • Configure the forwarder
  • Add an input to UF using CLI

Module 9 – Distributed Search

  • Describe how distributed search works
  • Explain the roles of the search head and search peers
  • Configure a distributed search group
  • List search head scaling options

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.