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Admin Manual

 


Welcome to Splunk administration
What to do first
Use Splunk Web
Getting started for Windows admins
Manage Splunk licenses
Meet Splunk apps
Configure Splunk
Indexing with Splunk
Manage users
Manage indexes
Define alerts
Set up backups and retention policies
Configure data security
Manage search jobs
Use Splunk's command line interface (CLI)
Configuration file reference
Troubleshooting

What's in this manual

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Contents

What's in this manual

This manual contains information and procedures for the Splunk administrator. If you're responsible for configuring, running, and maintaining Splunk as a service for yourself or other users, this manual is for you.

For example, learn how to:

and much more.

Where is all the information about forwarding, distributed search, and other deployment strategies?

Starting with the 4.2 release, we've moved that information into a separate manual, Distributed Deployment. There's a lot of new stuff there, as well. Check it out and let us know what you think!

How about the data inputs and event processing stuff?

Yep, we've moved that, too -- to a second new manual, Getting Data In. There you'll find all the great information previously in the Admin manual, along with a lot of new topics. That manual covers the entire process of getting data into Splunk -- from setting up your data inputs to configuring event processing.

And the information about event types and so on?

We moved that information into a new manual a while back, actually, with the 4.1 release. For information about Splunk knowledge, new and old, look in the Knowledge Manager Manual.

Looking for help with searching in Splunk?

Check out the User Manual and the Search Reference Manual for all things search. In particular, you might want to check out the Search Cheatsheet if you're looking for a quick list of common examples.

Make a PDF

If you'd like a PDF version of this manual, click the red Download the Admin Manual as PDF link below the table of contents on the left side of this page. A PDF version of the manual is generated on the fly for you, and you can save it or print it out to read later.

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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.2 , 4.2.1 , 4.2.2 , 4.2.3 , 4.2.4 , 4.2.5 View the Article History for its revisions.


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