user authentication

noun

The method by which users are identified and allowed to (or disallowed from) logging in to Splunk. Splunk supports the following types of user authentication: LDAP, scripted authentication, SSO, and Splunk's built-in authentication.

For more information

In the Admin Manual:

configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time