AWS Service Catalog Overview Now let’s talk a service that can come up at the exam on one or two questions, which is the AWS service catalog. So the idea is that when you go and start with AWS, you have too many options and it’s very complicated for beginners to get started. And sometimes your users just want to be using the services and so they may create stacks though that are not going to be compliant or in line with the rest of the organization. So they just…

AWS Organizations for SysOps So, just a little bit of extra information regarding organizations for the sysaps exam. The first of all, you can enable what’s called Reserved Instances sharing in your organization. That means that all the accounts of your organizations will have access to all the Reserved Instances. And so that means that any account can use any other accounts, our eyes, and this is obviously for cost saving, but you may want to disable that for or any specific account, including the Payer account, in which case…

[SAA] Organizations Overview So let’s get into the multi account realm with AWS Organizations. So, AWS Organizations is a global service and it is allowing you to manage multiple AWS accounts in your organization. The main account is going to be called the Master account and you cannot change it. And the other accounts within your organizations are member accounts. The member accounts can only be part of one organization, although they can be moved from one organization to another. It’s called a migration, and we’ll see how to do…

Section Intro Now we are getting into the AWS account management section and in this section we’ll see all there is to know about health dashboards, AWS organizations and the billing console. There’s no fancy diagram for these services, but they are asked at the exam for the sysups perspective. And also as sysups in the real life, you will need to know in and out these skills to be able to be a great sysups. I’m really excited. This will be a short section, but I’m sure it will…

Security Use Case: SQL Injection Detection in Splunk In this video we will be seeing a security industry related use case in splunk that is sql injection attack detection using splunk. In our lab setup on Amazon aws I have installed a vulnerable application which is used for penetration testing and made sure to collect all the logs and send to a splunk installed vulnerable application is called bwap. If you would like to know more about this application, it is listed in the description, check it out. In this…

Handson Multisite Indexer Clustering : Part 03 As you can see, this screen is similar to the step that we have done as part of a single site cluster where you saw, as soon as we configured the master node, it reported itself as a search engine. So now we need to add peers to this master. In order to add peers, there are two methods. One, you can use splunk cli, but it’s better to understand splunk configuration files so that you will know what configuration are changed and…

Handson Indexer Clustering : part 03 Once we add this indexers, you should be able to see our indexer clustering successfully. The procedure is similar in case if we have more than ten indexers, how do you manage this configuration? So in that case, we’ll be seeing when we are building our architecture in Amazon aws that is multi site clustering along with high availability. We’ll be deploying all this configuration from our deployment server and you’ll see the ease of achieving this using deployment server. So this is our…

Search Factor And Replication Factor The core configuration during indexer clustering is determining how many replication factor or search factor best fits your environment. Replication factor and search factor refers to your single site indexer clustering, whereas site replication factor and site research factor refers to your multi site site indexer clustering. So these both represent the same, but depending on the scenario, these both will be taken into effect. The site replication factor and site search factor overrides your replication factor and search factor. When we are doing our…

Introduction to Clustering and Indexer Clustering UseCase Hi. In this module we’ll be discussing one of the most important configuration of splunk, that is clustering. The term clustering refers to set of nodes performing identical activities in order to achieve high availability, data integrity or performance boost. In splunk we’ll be going what all different is we can cluster splunk instance and what are all its benefits in splunk? Mainly we have indexer cluster where data is replicated between multiple indexers, further breakdown of indexer cluster. We have single set…

Out Of The Box Journey Flow These are the options that needs to be said for these charts. As you can see, these options are more valuable so that you can quickly buy a glance without knowing what these values are. You can know whether it’s bad or good. So this is something good to implement. So in this we can see we have included a custom css file and also custom javascript. You don’t need to code this in order to build this. It’s already available as part of…