Which tool(s) can be leveraged to diagnose connection problems between an indexer and forwarder? (Select all that apply.)
When troubleshooting a situation where some files within a directory are not being indexed, the ignored files are discovered to have long headers. What is the first thing that should be added to inputs.conf?
Which index-time props.conf attributes impact indexing performance? (Select all that apply.)
New data has been added to a monitor input file. However, searches only show older data.
Which splunkd. log channel would help troubleshoot this issue?
Splunk configuration parameter settings can differ between multiple .conf files of the same name contained within different apps. Which of the following directories has the highest precedence?
What does setting site=site0 on all Search Head Cluster members do in a multi-site indexer cluster?
Search dashboards in the Monitoring Console indicate that the distributed deployment is approaching its capacity. Which of the following options will provide the most search performance improvement?
At which default interval does metrics.log generate a periodic report regarding license utilization?
Users who receive a link to a search are receiving an "Unknown sid" error message when they open the link.
Why is this happening?
When using the props.conf LINE_BREAKER attribute to delimit multi-line events, the SHOULD_LINEMERGE attribute should be set to what?
A monitored log file is changing on the forwarder. However, Splunk searches are not finding any new data that has been added. What are possible causes? (select all that apply)
Because Splunk indexing is read/write intensive, it is important to select the appropriate disk storage solution for each deployment. Which of the following statements is accurate about disk storage?
The master node distributes configuration bundles to peer nodes. Which directory peer nodes receive the bundles?
Several critical searches that were functioning correctly yesterday are not finding a lookup table today. Which log file would be the best place to start troubleshooting?
A Splunk environment collecting 10 TB of data per day has 50 indexers and 5 search heads. A single-site indexer cluster will be implemented. Which of the following is a best practice for added data resiliency?
To optimize the distribution of primary buckets; when does primary rebalancing automatically occur? (Select all that apply.)
Splunk Enterprise platform instrumentation refers to data that the Splunk Enterprise deployment logs in the _introspection index. Which of the following logs are included in this index? (Select all that apply.)
A customer is migrating 500 Universal Forwarders from an old deployment server to a new deployment server, with a different DNS name. The new deployment server is configured and running.
The old deployment server deployed an app containing an updated deploymentclient.conf file to all forwarders, pointing them to the new deployment server. The app was successfully deployed to all 500 forwarders.
Why would all of the forwarders still be phoning home to the old deployment server?
A search head cluster member contains the following in its server .conf. What is the Splunk server name of this member?
Which of the following strongly impacts storage sizing requirements for Enterprise Security?
Before users can use a KV store, an admin must create a collection. Where is a collection is defined?
Which command will permanently decommission a peer node operating in an indexer cluster?
The frequency in which a deployment client contacts the deployment server is controlled by what?
Which of the following Splunk deployments has the recommended minimum components for a high-availability search head cluster?
A customer has a four site indexer cluster. The customer has requirements to store five copies of searchable data, with one searchable copy of data at the origin site, and one searchable copy at the disaster recovery site (site4).
Which configuration meets these requirements?
Users are asking the Splunk administrator to thaw recently-frozen buckets very frequently. What could the Splunk administrator do to reduce the need to thaw buckets?
How does the average run time of all searches relate to the available CPU cores on the indexers?
A Splunk instance has crashed, but no crash log was generated. There is an attempt to determine what user activity caused the crash by running the following search:
What does searching for closed_txn=0 do in this search?
Stakeholders have identified high availability for searchable data as their top priority. Which of the following best addresses this requirement?
To expand the search head cluster by adding a new member, node2, what first step is required?
What is the algorithm used to determine captaincy in a Splunk search head cluster?
In splunkd. log events written to the _internal index, which field identifies the specific log channel?