Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments (ASED) – Contenuti

Contenuti dettagliati del Corso

Topic 1 – Introduction

  • Overview of the Splunk deployment planning process and associated tools

Topic 2 – Project Requirements

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

Topic 3 – Infrastructure Planning: Index Design

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

Topic 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

Topic 5- Clustering Overview

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

Topic 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

Topic 7 - Integration

  • Describe integration methods
  • Identify common integration points

Topic 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

Topic 9 – Use Cases

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