What should be included in a migration plan to handle a failed migration?

A plan to delete all old indexers immediately

A rollback procedure to restore the original cluster

A policy to ignore any data replication errors

A schedule to reboot the master node every hour

Which step should be performed BEFORE starting an indexer cluster migration?

Back up the cluster's configuration and data

Disable replication on the master node

Delete the cluster's existing buckets

Remove all old indexers from the cluster

Which situation is a typical trigger for planning an indexer cluster migration?

Changing the default search time range

Adjusting the timezone on the search head

Upgrading Splunk Enterprise to a new major version

Creating a new role for dashboard access

Which scenario is a common reason to migrate an indexer cluster?

Changing the Splunk admin password

Modifying an index's retention policy

Replacing aging hardware with newer servers

Adding a new search head to the deployment

A Splunk administrator is planning to migrate an indexer cluster to new hardware. The cluster has a replication factor of 2 and a search factor of 2. What is a critical pre-migration check that must be performed?

Confirm that the cluster master is running the latest version of Splunk.

Check that all indexers have the same amount of free disk space.

Ensure that the search heads are configured with the same authentication method.

Verify that all buckets are searchable and replicated across the cluster.

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