Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Practice Test

What command should be used from the forwarder to remove a receiver?

1. splunk delete forward-server

2. splunk remove forward-server

3. splunk clear receiver

4. splunk discard forward-server

The correct answer is: splunk remove forward-server

The command used from the forwarder to remove a receiver is "splunk remove forward-server." This command effectively tells the forwarder to disassociate from the specified receiver, which is crucial for managing data routing within a Splunk environment. When you configure a forwarder to send data, it establishes a connection with a designated receiver (the Splunk indexer). If you later decide that you no longer need to send data to that particular receiver, using the "remove" command allows you to cleanly sever that link. In contrast, other commands like "splunk delete forward-server," "splunk clear receiver," and "splunk discard forward-server" do not accurately achieve the intended outcome of removing the receiver connection. These alternatives may imply different functions or simply do not exist within the commands used in Splunk, indicating that "splunk remove forward-server" is the correct and specific command for this action.