Architecting Splunk 8.0.1 Enterprise Deployments

Architecting Splunk 8.0.1 Enterprise Deployments

Architecting Splunk 8.0.1 Enterprise Deployments

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Instructor-led online training

Location Oct 2022 Nov 2022 Dec 2022 Jan 2023 Feb 2023 Mar 2023 Apr 2023
APAC Sydney - Virtual Oct 13 – Oct 14
EMEA UK Time - Virtual Oct 24 – Oct 25
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APAC Singapore - Virtual Nov 7 – Nov 8
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Summary

This nine-hour course focuses on large enterprise deployments. Students will learn steps and best practices for planning, data collection and sizing for a distributed deployment. Workshop-style labs challenge students to make design decisions about an example enterprise deployment.

Description

  • Requirements definition
  • Index and resource planning
  • Clustering Overview
  • Forwarder and Deployment
  • Integration
  • Performance Monitoring and Tuning
  • Use Cases

Duration

2 Days

Objectives

Module 1 – Introduction

  • Overview of the Splunk deployment planning process and associated tools

Module 2 – Project Requirements

  • Identify critical information about environment, volume, users, and requirements
  • Review checklists and resources to aid in collecting requirements

Module 3 – Infrastructure Planning: Index Design

  • Design and size indexes
  • Estimate storage requirements
  • Identify relevant apps

Module 4 – Infrastructure Planning: Resource Planning

  • List sizing factors for servers
  • Describe how reference hardware is used to scale deployments
  • Identify the impact of clustering for index replication and for search heads

Module 5 - Clustering Overview

  • Describe the different clustering capabilities
  • Introduce the concepts of indexer and search head clustering

Module 6 - Forwarder and Deployment Best Practices

  • Review types of forwarders
  • Describe how to manage forwarder installation
  • Review configuration management for all Splunk components, using Splunk deployment tools
  • Provide best practices for a Splunk deployment

Module 7 - Integration

  • Describe integration methods
  • Identify common integration points

Module 8 – Performance Monitoring and Tuning

  • Use the Monitoring Console to track the performance of your test environment
  • List options to fine tune performance for production environment

Module 9 – Use Cases

  • Provide example architecture topologies
  • Discuss different architecture options based on use case

Prerequisites

To be successful, students should have a solid understanding of the following courses:
  • Splunk Fundamentals 1
  • Splunk Fundamentals 2
OR the following single-subject courses:
  • What Is Splunk?
  • Intro to Splunk
  • Using Fields
  • Introduction to Knowledge Objects
  • Creating Knowledge Objects
  • Creating Field Extractions
Students should also have completed the following courses:
  • Splunk System Administration
  • Splunk Data Administration

Onsite Training

For groups of three or more

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Public Training

APAC Sydney - Virtual

EMEA UK Time - Virtual

AMER Pacific Time - Virtual

APAC Singapore - Virtual

AMER Eastern Time - Virtual


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