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>> Welcome to Video 2 of Module 2.
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Today we're talking about the Splunk website,
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which is obviously a really simple topic,
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but I think it's important to know
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what resources you have available,
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especially when you're scrambling
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to find a solution for something.
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This is just my recommendation of
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things that already have bookmarked.
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If we pull up the Splunk website,
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we're just on splunk.com here.
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And it's a little bit easy to get lost
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into all the information that they've got available.
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If we were to just look at resources, for example,
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they've got eBooks you could read,
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they've got tech briefs,
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videos, webinars, white papers.
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There's tons of stuff here.
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I think some of the critical things to know exist
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are Splunk docs.
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Splunk actually has amazing documentation.
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If you wanted to just
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select your product here, you can search.
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If you're looking for something specifically a bit,
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let's just look at Splunk Enterprise.
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They've even got it broken down in different categories.
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Here's your installation manual,
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and I guarantee you that's going to pretty
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much tell you everything you would need to know,
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barring unusual circumstances, how to install it.
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Then we can look at adding data.
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Learn how to configure the Splunk add-on for
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Palo Alto Networks on
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a single instance of Splunk Enterprise.
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It's cool. They have really in-depth documentation.
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Let's just click on one of these here, the typical page.
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You can go down along the side here.
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It tells you how to install system log server,
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all the other things.
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Something to pay attention
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to is this version up in the corner here.
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If you don't have the latest release,
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you should go back a little bit.
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Let's go back really far.
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Let's see if this even exists
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four version that might not even be compatible.
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We can see the documentation
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relevant for this particular version here.
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Another place that's extremely helpful is Splunk Answers.
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Chances are if you have a question for something,
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somebody else has already asked
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it and there are answers to it.
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This is an extremely active community.
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As we can see, somebody
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last modified a question an hour ago,
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three hours ago, two hours ago.
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People are regularly answering
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and asking questions on here.
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Whenever you run into an issue,
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one of the first things you might do is just try and
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see if there's already a really good solution for it.
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Splunk base is another place to look at.
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If you're trying to even decide
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if Splunk is going to work for you,
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this might be a good place to start.
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You can look for what kinds of apps that they have.
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The most major products actually,
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if they make sense to integrate with Splunk,
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they've got something pre-built to do that.
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You can check on here,
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see what kinds of apps they have.
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Then in later videos
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we're going to talk about how to use apps.
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But you can see here they've even got
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slack notifications that you can add to Splunk,
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all kinds of stuff.
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That's a good place to be aware of.
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Additionally, if we go back to splunk.com,
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I said I was going to touch again on
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certifications just to make sure you understand.
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If we go to training,
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there are lots of
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learning materials available from Splunk directly.
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This is the course.
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I really recommend that you take.
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This introduction to Splunk
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is actually a little more basic than this.
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For a fundamentals one
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course you would think that that would be really simple,
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but it goes a lot more in-depth than you would expect.
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After completing this course,
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I recommend going into that if you're interested in
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Splunk and then taking the exam that comes with it.
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You can be a certified course blink user.
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Along here, we have different learning paths.
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If you have a particular interest in mind,
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or you just want to browse what they have available,
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check these out, and they
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do update this pretty regularly.
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I like to come back here every
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now and again and see what they've added,
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see what they've changed.
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Anyways, that's pretty much the Splunk site.
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Go ahead and make your bookmarks.
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I think that'll help you out and
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we'll be onto the next topic. Thanks for watching.
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