Which of the following is a valid option for handling frozen data in Splunk?

Archive to external storage using a coldToFrozenScript

Keep it searchable in the index

Automatically re-index it into a new index

Compress it and store it in the cold bucket

Why might an organization apply different retention settings to different indexes?

To meet varying compliance requirements for different data types

To simplify configuration management

To improve search performance for all indexes

To reduce the number of indexes needed

Which of the following best describes the purpose of data retention controls in Splunk?

To manage the replication factor of index data across peers

To determine how long indexed data is kept before it is rolled to frozen state or deleted

To encrypt data at rest in the index

To control which users can search specific indexes

A Splunk administrator is configuring a custom index for financial transaction data. The compliance team requires that data be archived to an external storage system when it reaches the frozen state, not deleted. The administrator has written a script that copies the frozen buckets to the external storage. What must the administrator do to ensure this script runs when data freezes?

Place the script in the Splunk bin directory and it will run automatically for all indexes.

Set the archiveScript parameter in indexes.conf to the path of the script.

Set the coldToFrozenScript parameter in indexes.conf to the path of the script.

Set the frozenTimePeriodInSecs parameter to the path of the script.

What is the purpose of the `coldToFrozenScript` setting in Splunk?

To define the maximum age of cold buckets

To specify a script that runs when cold buckets are rolled to frozen state

To compress cold buckets to save disk space

To move cold buckets to a different index

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A Splunk administrator is configuring a custom index for financial transaction data. The compliance team requires that data be archived to an external storage system when it reaches the frozen state, not deleted. The administrator has written a script that copies the frozen buckets to the external storage. What must the administrator do to ensure this script runs when data freezes?
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