Course Code: bspspclad
Duration: 21 hours
Prerequisites:

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

  • What is Splunk?
  • Intro to Splunk
  • Using Fields
  • Scheduling Reports and Alerts
  • Introduction to Knowledge Objects
  • Creating Knowledge Objects
  • Creating Field Extractions
  • Splunk Enterprise System Administration
  • Splunk Enterprise Data Administration
  • Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise
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.

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
Course Outline:

Module 1 – Splunk Troubleshooting Methods and Tools

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

Module 2 – Singe-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
  • Manager 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 Custers
  • 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