Splunk Basics Course
Complete hands-on tutorial about the process of logging and monitoring using the amazing and agile tool Splunk
What you’ll learn
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ICT Logging and monitoring basics
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How to make logs work for you and get notified if something went wrong
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Visualize data received from any log source in very simple steps
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Build a small computer LAB that consists of a Splunk server, Apache web server and Fortigate firewall virtual appliance
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Install and configure Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Universal Forwarder
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Know the different deployment types of Splunk
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Collect logs from remote nodes using Splunk Universal Forwarder
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Collect logs from Syslog devices like Fortigate firewall
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Search and explore data on Splunk
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Extract fields and add knowledge to data
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Quick introduction to Splunk Search Processing language (SPL)
Requirements
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Some prior knowledge about Linux operation system
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You’ll need a desktop computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) capable of running 3 virtual machines. The course will walk you through installing the necessary free software.
Who this course is for:
- Security engineers
- IT Administrators
- Security operations center engineers
- Security incident handlers
- Systems administrators
- Anyone wants to explore huge log files/feeds
- Anyone interested to learn Splunk
