What will the following inputs. conf stanza do?
[script://myscript . sh]
Interval=0
A. The script will run at the default interval of 60 seconds.
B. The script will not be run.
C. The script will be run only once for each time Splunk is restarted.
D. The script will be run. As soon as the script exits, Splunk restarts it.
Explanation:
The inputs.conf file is used to configure inputs, distributed inputs such as
forwarders, and file system monitoring in Splunk1.
The [script://myscript.sh] stanza specifies a script input, which means that Splunk
runs the script and indexes its output1.
The interval setting determines how often Splunk runs the script. If the interval is
set to 0, the script runs only once when Splunk starts up1. If the interval is omitted,
the script runs at the default interval of 60 seconds2.
Therefore, option C is correct, and the other options are incorrect.
When running a real-time search, search results are pulled from which Splunk component?
A. Heavy forwarders and search peers
B. Heavy forwarders
C. Search heads
D. Search peers
Explanation:
Using the Splunk reference URLhttps://docs.splunk.com/Splexicon:Searchpeer
"search peer is a splunk platform instance that responds to search requests from a search
head. The term "search peer" is usally synonymous with the indexer role in a distributed
search topology. However, other instance types also have access to indexed data,
particularly internal diagnostic data, and thus function as search peers when they respond
to search requests for that data."
A Splunk administrator has been tasked with developing a retention strategy to have frequently accessed data sets on SSD storage and to have older, less frequently accessed data on slower NAS storage. They have set a mount point for the NAS. Which parameter do they need to modify to set the path for the older, less frequently accessed data in indexes.conf?
A. homepath
B. thawedPath
C. summaryHomePath
D. colddeath
Explanation: The coldPath parameter defines the path for the cold buckets, which are the oldest and least frequently accessed data in an index1. By setting the coldPath to point to the NAS mount point, the Splunk administrator can achieve the retention strategy of having older data on slower NAS storage.
The following stanzas in inputs. conf are currently being used by a deployment client:
[udp: //145.175.118.177:1001
Connection_host = dns
sourcetype = syslog
Which of the following statements is true of data that is received via this input?
A. If Splunk is restarted, data will be queued and then sent when Splunk has restarted.
B. Local firewall ports do not need to be opened on the deployment client since the port is defined in inputs.conf.
C. The host value associated with data received will be the IP address that sent the data
D. If Splunk is restarted, data may be lost.
Explanation: This is because the input type is UDP, which is an unreliable protocol that does not guarantee delivery, order, or integrity of the data packets. UDP does not have any mechanism to resend or acknowledge the data packets, so if Splunk is restarted, any data that was in transit or in the buffer may be dropped and not indexed.
Which Splunk component would one use to perform line breaking prior to indexing?
A. Heavy Forwarder
B. Universal Forwarder
C. Search head
D. This can only be done at the indexing layer.
Explanation: According to the Splunk documentation1, a heavy forwarder is a Splunk Enterprise instance that can parse and filter data before forwarding it to an indexer. A heavy forwarder can perform line breaking, which is the process of splitting incoming data into individual events based on a set of rules2. A heavy forwarder can also apply other transformations to the data, such as field extractions, event type matching, or masking sensitive data.
Within props. conf, which stanzas are valid for data modification? (select all that apply)
A. Host
B. Server
C. Source
D. Sourcetype
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