Free Splunk Infrastructure Overview

This self-paced course gives users an overview of the Splunk Enterprise infrastructure. Users get a high-level look at how to grow a Splunk deployment from a single instance to a distributed environment. With tips and best practices for deploying, extending and integrating Splunk while showing the user what is happening behind the scenes.

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Course Objectives

Module 1 - Splunk Components

• Identify Components
• How Splunk Scales

Module 2 -  Pre-installation

• Hardware Requirements
• Installing on Virtual Environments
• Permissions
• Time Syncing
• What is Splunkd
• Port Information

Module 3 - Installing Splunk

• Installing on Linux
• Installing on Window
• Installing Components
• SplunkWeb Administration
• Splunk Directory Structure

Module 4 - The Splunk Pipeline

• How Data Flows
• Licensing
• .conf Files

Module 5 - Indexes

• Overview of Indexes
• Using Multiple Indexes
• Buckets
• Creating Indexes

Module 6 - User and Roles

• Users
• Roles
• Methods

Module 7 - Data Inputs

• Overview of Inputs
• Upload Input
• Monitor Input
• Universal Forwarder
• Heavy Forwarder
• SSL for Forwarded Data
• Apps and Add-ons

Module 8 - Growing Your Deployment

• Setting up Search Peers
• DMC Overview