A Splunk Architect Has Inherited the Splunk Deployment at Buttercup

question 85

Multiple Choice

A Splunk architect has inherited the Splunk deployment at Buttercup Games and end users are complaining that the events are inconsistently formatted for a web sourcetype. Further investigation reveals that not all web logs flow through the same infrastructure: some of the data goes through heavy forwarders and some of the forwarders are managed by another department. Which of the following items might be the cause for this issue?

• A) The search head may have different configurations than the indexers.
• B) The data inputs are not properly configured across all the forwarders.
• C) The indexers may have different configurations than the heavy forwarders.
• D) The forwarders managed by the other department are an older version than the rest.

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