Splunk SPLK-1004 Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 7

In Splunk, the Admin role (Option D) has the capability to use the Log Event alert action among many other administrative privileges. The Log Event alert action allows Splunk to create an event in an index based on the triggering of an alert, providing a way to log and track alert occurrences over time. The Admin role typically encompasses a wide range of permissions, including the ability to configure and manage alert actions.

Using the tstats command with summariesonly=false instructs Splunk to return results from both summarized (accelerated) data and non-summarized (raw) data. This can be useful when you need a comprehensive view of the data that includes both the high-performance summaries provided by data model acceleration and the detailed granularity of raw data.

An event handler action in Splunk is an action that is triggered based on user interaction with dashboard elements. Running an eval statement based on a user clicking a value on a form (Option A) is an example of an event handler action. This capability allows dashboards to be interactive and dynamic, responding to user inputs or actions to modify displayed data, visuals, or other elements in real-time.

Wildcards can be used in the from clause of the tstats command in Splunk (Option C). The from clause specifies the data model or dataset from which to retrieve the statistics, and using wildcards here allows users to query across multiple data models or datasets that share a common naming pattern, making the search more flexible and encompassing.

The result of the xyseries command in Splunk is to transform a stats-like output into chart-like output (Option B). The xyseries command restructures the search results so that each row represents a unique combination of x and y values, suitable for plotting in a chart, making it easier to visualize complex relationships between multiple data points.

In Splunk Simple XML for dashboards, dynamic drilldowns are configured within the <drilldown> element, not <link>, <condition>, or . To pass multiple fields to another dashboard, you would use a combination of <set> tokens within the <drilldown> element. Each <set> token specifies a field or value to be passed. The correct configuration might look something like this within the <drilldown> element:

<drilldown>

<set token='token1'>$row.field1$</set>

<set token='token2'>$row.field2$</set>

<link target='_blank'>/app/search/new_dashboard</link>

</drilldown>

In this configuration, $row.field1$ and $row.field2$ are placeholders for the field values from the clicked event, which are assigned to tokens token1 and token2. These tokens can then be used in the target dashboard to receive the values. The <link> element specifies the target dashboard. Note that the exact syntax can vary based on the specific requirements of the drilldown and the dashboard configuration.