A summary index is populated by a scheduled search that runs every hour and summarizes the last hour of data. An administrator discovers that the search failed to run for 3 consecutive hours due to a system outage. After the outage, the search resumes running normally. What should the administrator do to fill the gap in the summary index?

Wait for the next scheduled run to cover the gap.

Manually run the scheduled search for the missed time periods.

Delete the summary index and recreate it.

Change the scheduled search to run every 5 minutes to catch up.

What is the primary purpose of report acceleration in Splunk?

To increase the number of concurrent searches allowed on a search head

To reduce the disk space used by raw event data

To pre-compute results for a report so that subsequent runs are faster

To automatically correct errors in search syntax before execution

What problem can overlapping summary index data cause?

Slower search performance due to too many indexes

Inability to search the summary index

Double counting of events in aggregated results

Increased disk usage without any performance benefit

What is a common cause of gaps in summary index data?

The summary index has too much data

The summary index is not replicated

The summary search uses too many commands

The summary search did not run for a certain time period

Which of the following is shown on the Summary Detail page?

The raw events that were used to build the summary

The list of reports that use this summary

The time range covered by the summary

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A summary index is populated by a scheduled search that runs every hour and summarizes the last hour of data. An administrator discovers that the search failed to run for 3 consecutive hours due to a system outage. After the outage, the search resumes running normally. What should the administrator do to fill the gap in the summary index?
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