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13. Infrastructure Planning with Indexer and Search Head Clustering

Deep Mehta1  
(1)
Printserv, Mumbai, India
 

This module deals with the advanced Splunk deployment . Deployment acts as a centralized configuration manager for instances; network-based installations do not require administrators to individually install each operating system.

The first chapter in this module discusses the architecture of Splunk. It also covers clustering. The following topics are discussed in this chapter.

  • Capacity planning

  • Configuring a search peer

  • Configuring a search head

  • Search head clustering

  • Multisite indexer clustering

  • Designing Splunk architecture

By the end of this chapter, ...

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