In a distributed environment, which Splunk component is used to distribute apps and configurations to the other Splunk instances?
A. Indexer
B. Deployer
C. Forwarder
D. Deployment server
Explanation: The deployer is a Splunk Enterprise instance that you use to distribute apps and certain other configuration updates to search head cluster members. The set of updates that the deployer distributes is called the configuration bundle.
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.
What is the difference between the two wildcards ... and - for the monitor stanza in inputs, conf?
A. ... is not supported in monitor stanzas
B. There is no difference, they are interchangable and match anything beyond directory boundaries.
C. * matches anything in that specific directory path segment, whereas ... recurses through subdirectories as well.
D. ... matches anything in that specific directory path segment, whereas - recurses through subdirectories as well.
The ellipsis wildcard searches recursively through directories and any number of levels of subdirectories to find matches.
If you specify a folder separator (for example, //var/log/.../file), it does not match the first folder level, only subfolders.
* The asterisk wildcard matches anything in that specific folder path segment.
Unlike ..., * does not recurse through subfolders.
Which additional component is required for a search head cluster?
A. Deployer
B. Cluster Master
C. Monitoring Console
D. Management Console
The deployer. This is a Splunk Enterprise instance that distributes apps and other configurations to the cluster members. It stands outside the cluster and cannot run on the same instance as a cluster member. It can, however, under some circumstances, reside on the same instance as other Splunk Enterprise components, such as a deployment server or an indexer cluster master node.
Which Splunk component does a search head primarily communicate with?
A. Indexer
B. Forwarder
C. Cluster master
D. Deployment server
Event processing occurs at which phase of the data pipeline?
A. Search
B. Indexing
C. Parsing
D. Input
Explanation: According to the Splunk documentation1, event processing occurs at the parsing phase of the data pipeline. The parsing phase is where Splunk software processes incoming data into individual events, extracts timestamp information, assigns source types, and performs other tasks to make the data searchable1. The parsing phase can also apply field extractions, event type matching, and other transformations to the events2.
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