Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Practice Test

How would you route different data to different indexers?

1. by using multiple tcpout stanza in outputs.conf

2. with a single tcpout stanza in outputs.conf

3. by setting up data filters in inputs.conf

4. through the use of the dispatch.conf file

The correct answer is: by using multiple tcpout stanza in outputs.conf

Routing different data to different indexers involves specifying multiple targets for data transmission based on your configuration. Using multiple tcpout stanzas in the outputs.conf file allows for fine-grained control over data routing. Each tcpout stanza can define a different target indexer or a group of indexers, and you can create rules or conditions that determine which data goes to which indexer based on source, type, or other attributes. This approach is effective for environments where different datasets need to be sent to specialized indexers for performance, security, or organizational needs. For example, you might want to route web server logs to one indexer for analysis and application logs to another for application performance monitoring. Each tcpout stanza can be tailored independently, which helps maintain a clean and organized data routing scheme. The other choices do not facilitate routing to different indexers in the same versatile manner. A single tcpout stanza would limit the destination to one target, data filters in inputs.conf are primarily for controlling data ingestion rather than routing, and dispatch.conf is used to manage dispatching of search jobs, but not for forwarding data to indexers. Thus, multiple tcpout stanzas in outputs.conf is the optimal choice for routing different data types to different indexers.