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Start High Availability And Distributed Search PracticeA customer is experiencing 'Search peer [peer-name] is not responding' errors during indexer maintenance. Which configuration parameter in server.conf should be tuned to prevent search failures during rolling restarts?
Explanation: The 'restart_timeout' parameter in the [clustering] stanza controls how long a search head waits for a peer to return before marking it as down during a rolling restart.
Which component in a distributed search environment is responsible for the 'Search Affinity' feature?
Explanation: Search Affinity is a Search Head feature that ensures a search dispatched to an indexer cluster is routed to the same peer that holds the replicated bucket, minimizing cross-network data transfer. The Search Head (specifically the search head's cluster master integration) manages this routing decision.
You need to migrate a single-site Indexer Cluster to a multi-site configuration. What is the first step you must perform before modifying the server.conf on the Cluster Master?
Explanation: Before changing the cluster master's server.conf to convert a single-site cluster to multisite, you must set the cluster to maintenance mode (maintenance_mode=true) so the master does not attempt fixup or rebalance while the topology is being reconfigured. This prevents the master from reacting to the site changes mid-edit and creating unnecessary bucket replication churn. After the change and restart, you exit maintenance mode and the master applies the new multisite factors.
You are designing a multi-site Indexer Cluster with two sites. To ensure search availability during a site failure, which configuration is mandatory in the site_replication_factor stanza of server.conf?
Explanation: In a multi-site indexer cluster, the site_replication_factor attribute in server.conf must use explicit per-site syntax (e.g., 'origin:2, total:3' or 'site1:2, site2:2, total:4') to define how many copies of each bucket exist at each site. This explicit siteN syntax is mandatory because it ensures that search availability survives a full site failure by guaranteeing replicas exist at each site. Without per-site counts, Splunk cannot enforce site-aware replication.
When configuring a Search Head Cluster, which of the following is true regarding the 'shcluster_replication_port'?
Explanation: The `shcluster_replication_port` is a setting in the `[shclustering]` stanza of server.conf that specifies the port used for replication traffic between search head cluster members. It must be configured in server.conf on each member, typically with the same value across the cluster (default 9887).
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