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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.