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SPLK-1003 · Question #139

A non-clustered Splunk environment has three indexers (A,B,C) and two search heads (X, Y). During a search executed on search head X, indexer A crashes. What is Splunk's response?

The correct answer is A. Update the user in Splunk web informing them that the results of their search may be incomplete.. If an indexer goes down during a search, the search head notifies you that the results might be incomplete. The search head does not attempt to re-run the search on another indexer.

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Question

A non-clustered Splunk environment has three indexers (A,B,C) and two search heads (X, Y). During a search executed on search head X, indexer A crashes. What is Splunk's response?

Options

  • AUpdate the user in Splunk web informing them that the results of their search may be incomplete.
  • BRepeat the search request on indexer B without informing the user.
  • CUpdate the user in Splunk web that their results may be incomple and that Splunk will try to re-
  • DInform the user in Splunk web that their results may be incomplete and have them attempt the

How the community answered

(58 responses)
  • A
    93% (54)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    3% (2)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

If an indexer goes down during a search, the search head notifies you that the results might be incomplete. The search head does not attempt to re-run the search on another indexer.

Topics

#Distributed Search#Indexer Failure#Search Results Incompleteness#Non-clustered Environment

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