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| Teacher: joanna@splunk.com
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| My Intro:
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|   I'm Orien (sounds like the constellation Orion), just started as a Splunk
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|   Engineer at Defense Point Security. I've finished a couple Splunk classes
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|   over the last month, nothing practical yet, Linux for 20+ years. Dogs.
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| 
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| Goals:
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|   Manage and deploy forwarders with management (Module 4&5, critically important)
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|   configure common splunk data inputs
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|   customize input parsing process
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|   - Not covering creating splunk indexes
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| 
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| Schedule 1-4 today, 4-7 tomorrow, 8-12 Friday
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| 
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| Module 1: Introduction
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|   Input > Parsing > Indexing > Searching
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|   Primary Components: Forwarder, Indexer, Search Head
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|   Additional: Heavy Forwarder, Deployment Server
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|   
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|   Splunk Data Administrator Role
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|     data onboarding and management
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|     work with users requesting new data, define events and fields for ingest
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|     prioritize requests
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|     document everything
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|     design and manage inputs for UF/HF to capture data
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|     manage parsing, line breaking, timestamp extraction
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|     move from testing to production
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| Lab 1:
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|   Path: /opt/splunk
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| 
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| Module 2: Getting Data in - Staging
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|   Input phase - broad strokes only
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|     most configuration in input.conf
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|     some configuration occurs in props.conf 
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|   Parsing phase - fine tuned tweaks
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|     most configuration in props.conf
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|     also uses transforms.conf
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|   _thefishbucket contains file monitoring audit information
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|   custom indexes control access, improve performance and control retention time for each index individually.
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|   Index-Time precedence, local/default file processing under apps occurs in ascii sort order
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|   splunk btool <conf-name> list <options>
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|     options: --debug --user=<user> --app=<app>
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|     examples: splunk bool inputs list monitor:///var/log/secure.log --debug
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|       --debug shows the config files that created the settings.
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| 
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| Module 3: getting Data in - Productin
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|   Universal Forwarder bandwidth limited to 256KBps by default
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|   UF only forward to splunk instances, and only 1 at a time
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|   HF can forward to other products, and more than 1 at a time
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|   HF can be used as a mid stage forwarder for multi-tier forwarding setups.
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|   HF no longer best practice
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| 
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| Module 4: Deployment Server
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|   Server classes have one or more apps
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|   A server has one or more classes
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|   so a server gets apps via the classes it belongs to
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