November 2018
Beginner
298 pages
7h 51m
English
Content preview from Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide
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Creating an index
The most common settings used in an indexes.conf file are listed as follows for an example of a normal events index called weblogs_90d_eidx; we'll touch on metrics indexes shortly:
[weblogs_90d_eidx]repFactor=autohomePath = $SPLUNK_DB/weblogs_90d_eidx/dbcoldPath = $SPLUNK_DB/weblogs_90d_eidx/colddbthawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/weblogs_90d_eidx/thaweddb# Set the Maximum Index Size in MB# 51200 MB = 50 GBmaxTotalDataSizeMB = 51200# Set Index Retention to 90 DaysfrozenTimePeriodInSecs = 7776000
The significant settings include the following:
- repFactor = auto: This tells Splunk to replicate this index across the indexing cluster – important!
- homePath/coldPath/thawedPath: The disk locations where this indexes' buckets get stored in ...
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