Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Practice Test

True or False: Event Boundaries can be defined using props.conf at the Universal forwarder level.

1. True

2. False

3. Only at the indexer level

4. Only at the Heavy Forwarder level

The correct answer is: True

The statement is true because event boundaries can indeed be defined using the props.conf at the Universal Forwarder level in Splunk. The Universal Forwarder processes the data it collects and applies the configurations specified in props.conf to determine how to handle the events before they are sent to the indexers. This configuration includes setting event boundaries, which defines how to segment incoming raw data into distinct events. Defining event boundaries at the Universal Forwarder level allows for initial parsing to occur as close to the data source as possible, optimizing performance and ensuring that the data is structured correctly before it reaches the indexers for storage and further analysis. This capability is critical for managing data effectively in a Splunk deployment, and it supports the overall architecture by allowing for early handling of event segmentation based on the specific needs of the data source. Other options are limited in different ways; for instance, event boundaries could also be defined on Heavy Forwarders and Indexers, but they are not exclusively defined there—meaning that all levels (including the Universal Forwarder) can handle these settings.