SPLK-2002 Dumps with Practice Exam Questions Answers

The replication factor and the search factor are two important settings for a Splunk indexer cluster. The replication factor determines how many copies of each bucket are maintained across the set of peer nodes. The search factor determines how many searchable copies of each bucket are maintained. The default values for both settings are 3, which means that each bucket has three copies, and at least one of them is searchable

The site_mappings attribute should be added to the master node’s server.conf file when decommissioning a site in an indexer cluster. The site_mappings attribute is used to specify how the master node should reassign the buckets from the decommissioned site to the remaining sites. The site_mappings attribute is a comma-separated list of site pairs, where the first site is the decommissioned site and the second site is the destination site. For example, site_mappings = site1:site2,site3:site4 means that the buckets from site1 will be moved to site2, and the buckets from site3 will be moved to site4. The available_sites attribute is used to specify which sites are currently available in the cluster, and it is automatically updated by the master node. The site_search_factor and site_replication_factor attributes are used to specify the number of searchable and replicated copies of each bucket for each site, and they are not affected by the decommissioning process

A deployment plan should include business continuity and disaster recovery plans, current logging details and data source inventory, and current and future topology diagrams of the IT environment. These elements are essential for planning, designing, and implementing a Splunk deployment that meets the business and technical requirements. A comprehensive list of stakeholders, either direct or indirect, is not part of the deployment plan, but rather part of the project charter. For more information, see Deployment planning in the Splunk documentation.

 The following is a good practice for a search head cluster deployer: The deployer must be used to distribute non-replicable configurations to search head cluster members. Non-replicable configurations are the configurations that are not replicated by the search factor, such as the apps and the server.conf settings. The deployer is the Splunk server role that distributes these configurations to the search head cluster members, ensuring that they have the same configuration. The deployer does not only distribute configurations to search head cluster members when they “phone home”, as this would cause configuration inconsistencies and delays. The deployer does not distribute configurations to search head cluster members to be valid configurations, as this implies that the configurations are invalid without the deployer. The deployer does not only distribute configurations to search head cluster members with splunk apply shcluster-bundle, as this would require manual intervention by the administrator. For more information, see Use the deployer to distribute apps and configuration updates in the Splunk documentation.

Decreasing the data model acceleration range will reduce the disk size requirements for a cluster of indexers running Splunk Enterprise Security. Data model acceleration creates tsidx files that consume disk space on the indexers. Reducing the acceleration range will limit the amount of data that is accelerated and thus save disk space. Setting the cluster search factor or replication factor to N-1 will not reduce the disk size requirements, but rather increase the risk of data loss. Increasing the number of buckets per index will also increase the disk size requirements, as each bucket has a minimum size. For more information, see Data model acceleration and Bucket size in the Splunk documentation.