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Srikanth Yarlagadda
Srikanth Yarlagadda
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Srikanth Yarlagadda

Srikanth is a highly accomplished IT professional with a diverse range of expertise in the technology industry. Having completed his Masters in Computer Applications in 2009, he has since honed his skills in Java, Oracle SOA, and API development, gaining valuable experience along the way. With over 13 years of experience in the field, Srikanth is now a Splunk Certified Architect and was recently selected to join the esteemed cohort of SplunkTrust in 2022. He has extensive knowledge of various Splunk products, including Splunk Enterprise Security and SOAR, and he is currently dedicated to Threat Detection and Security Automation using Splunk ES & SOAR. Srikanth's impressive work history includes significant roles at major telecom companies across Norway and Pan Europe. Beyond technology, Srikanth's greatest joy is his family. Along with his wife and two children, he calls Australia home and enjoys spending time together while staying active.
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In conclusion, the Splunk UF is a software binary that does not require any license and is typically installed on the source system. The UF is lightweight and consumes fewer resources. The UF monitors and forwards the data to indexers for indexing and reads the data in a file exactly once using the fishbucket concept. Structured data such as CSV, XML, JSON, and so on can be parsed using INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS. Forwarding on the UF is configured in the outputs.conf file, which contains the indexer host and management port details.

The UF can be installed on various supported OSs and hardware specifications; we have seen its installation for both Windows (through the interactive GUI) and Linux (through the CLI/silent mode). By default, the UF is installed in /opt/splunkforwarder/ in linux environment, which is referred to via the $SPLUNK_HOME environment variable.

After that, we explored the DS, which is a Splunk Enterprise instance for managing the many forwarders in large...

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Srikanth Yarlagadda

Srikanth is a highly accomplished IT professional with a diverse range of expertise in the technology industry. Having completed his Masters in Computer Applications in 2009, he has since honed his skills in Java, Oracle SOA, and API development, gaining valuable experience along the way. With over 13 years of experience in the field, Srikanth is now a Splunk Certified Architect and was recently selected to join the esteemed cohort of SplunkTrust in 2022. He has extensive knowledge of various Splunk products, including Splunk Enterprise Security and SOAR, and he is currently dedicated to Threat Detection and Security Automation using Splunk ES & SOAR. Srikanth's impressive work history includes significant roles at major telecom companies across Norway and Pan Europe. Beyond technology, Srikanth's greatest joy is his family. Along with his wife and two children, he calls Australia home and enjoys spending time together while staying active.
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