Deploy:Deployment topics

Find information about the components of a Splunk deployment, your options when deploying, what choices you have with respect to high availability, and information about tuning factors.

General Deployment Topics

• Estimate Your Storage Requirement (Official Splunk documentation)
• Components of a Splunk deployment (Official Splunk documentation)
• Planning your Splunk deployment (Official Splunk documentation)
• Deployment models
• Installing Splunk in the Enterprise Step by Step
• Deploying Splunk Light Forwarders
• How to install and run multiple versions on a single Windows box?
• Where do I configure my Splunk settings?
• High availability and Splunk
• Splunk tuning factors
• Deployment scenario: high security requirements
• Hardware tuning factors
• Deploy users and roles to multiple servers
• Script for deploying a Splunk forwarder on Windows hosts
• Install Splunk on FreeBSD 7.x
• Setting web timeouts
• Splunk Visio stencil library - use this to make pretty pictures of your Splunk deployment!
• What is Splunk's footprint?
• Modifying indexed data via export and import
• Common Event Sizes (Reference Table) - useful reference to help in estimating daily indexing volume and/or storage capacity

• Splunk Deployment Server: Setup, Sizing, Troubleshooting
• How to add an additional search head to your distributed deployment
• How To Set Up Search Head Pooling and Shared Bundle
• How Splunk behaves when receiving or forwarding udp data: Tested how Splunk works as syslog server or syslog event forwarder.
• How to change owner of saved searches using REST API: CLI example to change owner of savedsearches using REST call
• Information on Splunk Socket Behavior for explanation, troubleshooting and analysis
• A recipe to limit splunk memory on Linux systems with Control Group Tools
• Splunk Bucket Retention, Timestamps, and You

Creating and Deploying Certificates

• Community:Splunk2Splunk_SSL_DefaultCerts
• Community:Splunk2Splunk_SSL_SelfSignedCert_NewRootCA
• Community:Splunk2Splunk_SSL_3rdPartyCA
• Community:SplunkWeb_SSL_DefaultCerts
• Community:SplunkWeb_SSL_SelfSignedCert_NewRootCA
• Community:SplunkWeb_SSL_3rdPartyCA

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