How is the captain elected in a Splunk search head cluster?

By a majority vote of all cluster members

A search head cluster has four members. A consultant needs to ensure that all members have the same set of saved searches and dashboards. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

Store the saved searches and dashboards on a shared filesystem that all members mount.

Manually copy the saved searches and dashboards to each member's local apps directory.

Use the captain to distribute the knowledge objects to all members.

Configure the deployment server to push the apps to all members.

What is the captain's role in a Splunk search head cluster?

To coordinate cluster activities and manage membership

To run all searches for the cluster

To act as the only node that can be promoted to captain

To store the cluster's search results

A search head cluster has five members. A user reports that they are seeing inconsistent results for the same search run at different times. The consultant suspects that the cluster members are not using the same configuration. What is the most likely cause?

The indexer cluster is returning different data for each search.

The captain is assigning the search to different members each time.

The members are running different versions of the same app.

The search is being run against different indexers each time.

A Splunk consultant is deploying a search head cluster (SHC) for a large enterprise. The cluster will consist of six search heads, and the organization requires that scheduled searches continue to run even if one search head fails. The consultant needs to ensure that the cluster members coordinate scheduled search execution and that only one member runs each scheduled search at a time. What is the primary mechanism that ensures this coordination?

The captain assigns scheduled searches to specific members and tracks their execution status.

The deployment server distributes a schedule to all members, and each member runs the search when its local clock matches.

Each member independently runs all scheduled searches and deduplicates results at search time.

The search head cluster uses a distributed lock manager on the indexer tier to serialize scheduled searches.

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A search head cluster has four members. A consultant needs to ensure that all members have the same set of saved searches and dashboards. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?
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What is the captain's role in a Splunk search head cluster?
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A search head cluster has five members. A user reports that they are seeing inconsistent results for the same search run at different times. The consultant suspects that the cluster members are not using the same configuration. What is the most likely cause?
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A Splunk consultant is deploying a search head cluster (SHC) for a large enterprise. The cluster will consist of six search heads, and the organization requires that scheduled searches continue to run even if one search head fails. The consultant needs to ensure that the cluster members coordinate scheduled search execution and that only one member runs each scheduled search at a time. What is the primary mechanism that ensures this coordination?
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