How to Create a Splunk Clustered Environment in AWS – Step by Step Guide for Admins & Architects
📌 Live Session Date: 24-June-2025
🎯 Topic: How to Create a Splunk Clustered Environment in AWS – Step-by-Step Guide for Admins & Architects
👨🏫 Hosted by: Soft Mania
In this power-packed session, we covered how to build a complete Splunk Single-Site Clustered Environment on AWS EC2 from scratch — covering all key admin and architect tasks in just 90 minutes.
✅ What we configured:
3 x Indexers (Indexer Cluster)
3 x Search Heads (Search Head Cluster)
1 x Cluster Manager
1 x Deployer
1 x Deployment Server
1 x License Master
1 x Monitoring Console
2 x Intermediate Forwarders
🛠 Key Activities:
End-to-end EC2 provisioning and role assignment
License manager setup and connecting all components
Configuring Search Head & Indexer clustering
Enabling Indexer Discovery for Forwarders
Deployment Server & Monitoring Console integration
Setting server roles, banners, and service credentials
Internal log verification to confirm successful setup
📚 Resources:
📘 Detailed Setup Guide:
https://public-documents.softmania.in...
🎥 Search Head Captain Election – Explained:
• Splunk : How Search Head Cluster Captain E...
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