Splunk Enterprise Data Administration (SP-SEDA)

To be successful, students must have completed these Splunk Education course(s) or have equivalent working knowledge:

• Intro to Splunk (ITS)
• Using Fields (SUF)
• Intro to Knowledge Objects (IKO)
• Creating Knowledge Objects (CKO)
• Creating Field Extractions (CFE)
• Enriching Data with Lookups (EDL)
• Data Models (SDM)

Additional courses and/or knowledge in these areas are also highly recommended:

• Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise (TSE)
• Splunk Enterprise Cluster Administration (SCLA)
• Transitioning to Splunk Cloud (TSC)

Module 1 – Get Data Into Splunk

• Provide an overview of Splunk
• Describe the four phases of the distributed model
• Describe data input types and metadata settings
• Configure initial input testing with Splunk Web
• Testing Indexes with Input Staging

Module 2 – Configuration Files and Apps

• Identify Splunk configuration files and directories
• Describe index-time and search-time precedence
• Validate and update configuration files
• Explore Splunk apps and apps installation

Module 3 – Configure Forwarders

• Configure Universal Forwarders
• Configure Heavy Forwarders

Module 4 – Customize Forwarder

• Configure intermediate forwarders
• Identify additional forwarder options

Module 5 - Manage Forwarders

• Describe Splunk Deployment Server (DS)
• Manage forwarders using deployment apps
• Configure deployment clients and client groups
• Monitor forwarder management activities

Module 6 – Monitor Inputs

• Create file and directory monitor inputs
• Use optional settings for monitor inputs
• Deploy a remote monitor input

Module 7 – Network Inputs

• Create network (TCP and UDP) inputs
• Describe optional settings for network inputs

Module 8 – Scripted Inputs

• Create a basic scripted input

Module 9 – Agentless Inputs

• Configure Splunk HTTP Event Collector (HEC) agentless input
• Describe Splunk App for Stream

Module 10 – Operating System Inputs

• Identify Linux-specific inputs
• Identify Windows-specific inputs

Module 11 – Fine-tuning Inputs

• Understand the default processing that occurs during input phase
• Configure input phase options, such as source type fine-tuning and character set encoding

Module 12 – Parsing Phase and Data Preview

• Understand the default processing that occurs during parsing
• Optimize and configure event line breaking
• Explain how timestamps and time zones are extracted or assigned to events
• Use Data Preview to validate event creation during parsing phase

Module 13 – Manipulating Input Data

• Explore Splunk transformation methods
• Create rulesets with Ingest Actions
• Mask data with Ingest Actions rules
• Mask data with SEDCMD and TRANSFORMS

Module 14 - Routing Input Data

• Filter data with Ingest Action rules
• Route data with Ingest Action rules
• Route data with Transforms

Module 15 – Supporting Knowledge Objects

• Define default and custom search time field extractions
• Identify the pros and cons of indexed time field extractions
• Configure indexed field extractions
• Describe default search time extractions
• Manage orphaned knowledge objects