The big data guided setup guides you through creating a server plan and adding the Splunk cluster.
Go to the Big Data Guided Setup
From the navigation pane, go to Guided setup.
The Welcome page appears.
On the Protect tab, at the bottom of the page, click More.
Click the Big data apps tile.
The Big data app setup page appears.
If you already completed the guided setup, the Apps page appears.
Create a Server Plan That You Can Use for Splunk
If you already have a server plan that you can use, you can skip this step.
On the Create server backup plan page, specify the settings for a server plan that you can use for the Splunk cluster.
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Plan name | Choose whether to create a new plan or use a base plan. In Plan name, enter a name for the server plan.
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Backup destinations | Click Add copy. The Add copy dialog box appears. In Name, enter a name for the backup destination. From the Storage list, select the storage to use for the backups. If you selected storage that uses Distributed Storage, the Optimize for instant clone toggle key appears. By default, this setting is turned on to allow the associated Distributed Storage to optimize backups for clones, using Copy Data Management. To turn off the setting, move the Optimize for instant clone toggle key to the left. The setting does not apply to HyperScale solutions that use Distributed Storage. You can use the MRR cool storage class (Metallic Recover Reserve) for creating secondary copies, but not for creating primary copies. To specify the start time for backups on a specific date and later, move the Backups On and After toggle key to the right. For Retention rules, enter the amount of time to retain the backups. To specify additional backups, such as weekly full backups, move the Extended retention rules toggle key to the right, and then add rules. Click Save. To add additional regions to the backup destination, move the Multi-region toggle key to the right, and then select the regions. You can also add more regions and associate the storage copy to the region.
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RPO | For Backup frequency, click Add. The Add backup frequency dialog box appears. From the Backup type list, select the backup type, and from the for list, select All agents or Databases. Specify the frequency of the backup. To specify the client time zone or to add exceptions, move the Advanced toggle key to the right. From the time zone list, select the time zone according to which the backups must run. To add exceptions when backups must not run, click Exceptions and add exceptions for any day or week of a month. These exceptions will repeat every month.
For Backup window (if incremental and differential backups are supported for the workload), specify when you want incremental and differential backups to run. For Full backup window, specify when you want full backups to run.
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Folders to back up | To back up only some content, in Content to back up, enter the content to back up. By default, all content is backed up. To exclude folders or files from the backup, in Exclude - files/folders/patterns, enter the content to exclude. Specify whether to include the system state in backups: To include the system state in all backups, move the Back up system state toggle key to the right. To include the system state only in full backups, select the Back up system state check box and the Only with full backup check box. To use Windows Server's VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to back up the system state, select the Use VSS for system state check box.
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Snapshot options | Under Snapshot options, do the following: Specify how to retain snapshots: To specify a number of jobs to retain on a snapshot copy, select Number of snap recovery points, and then enter the number of jobs to retain. To specify a retention period, select Retention period, and then enter the amount of time to retain the jobs.
If you don't want to create backup copies, move the Enable backup copy toggle key to the left to turn it off. For Backup copy frequency, enter how often to run backup copy jobs.
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Database options | Under Database options, do the following: For Log backup RPO, enter how often to run log backups. To automatically back up the database logs to the MediaAgent cache, do the following: Move the Use disk cache for log backups toggle key to the right. For Commit, enter how often to commit the logs to the CommServe computer. Disk caching of database logs applies to the following: Informix, Microsoft SQL Server on Windows, Oracle, Oracle RAC, and SAP HANA.
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Add the Splunk Cluster
When you add a cluster, an app and a default subclient are automatically created. By default, the default subclient contains all the data. If you do not want to back up all the data, you can modify the default subclient.
On the Add a big data app page, from the Application type list, select Splunk.
In the Name box, type a name for the cluster.
From the Master node list, select the master node.
In the Master URI box, type the master URI where the splunkd service is hosted on the master node.
Enter the following credentials as per the requirement:
Enter the login credential of the user with admin permissions on the entire Splunk cluster environment.
If you do not want to configure Splunk cluster with admin user and configure it with least privileges, then complete the following steps:
Handling User Role and Creation of User on Splunk cluster environment
You can create a new role inheriting from the default role 'user'. You need to add the following additional permissions for the created role:
edit_indexer_cluster
edit_server
indexes_edit
You can create a new user using the newly created role, which can be used to configure Splunk cluster in Commvault.
The same user should be created with the same role in all the nodes of the Splunk cluster.
Ensure that you use only one user to perform all the operations on the Splunk environment.
From the Plan list, select the server plan to use for the cluster.
Click Save.
Note: Keep the port for Splunkd open.