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Objective 11.6

Enterprise Certified Admin

Monitor forwarder management activities

Objective 11.6 sits in Forwarder Management, which carries 10% of the Enterprise Certified Admin exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Splunk page it rests on.

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A worked example

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11-6Forwarder Management

An administrator wants to push configuration to indexer cluster peer nodes. What does Splunk say?

Use the configuration bundleCorrect · your answerCorrect.
Use forwarder managementForwarder management is the interface Splunk tells you not to use here.
Use a deployment appDeployment apps are what the deployment server distributes.
Use a server classA server class groups clients for the deployment server.

Correct.

Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026

Concept

Cluster peers have to stay identical, and two tools writing to them would break that guarantee. The cluster's own distribution method is what keeps the members in step.

Why A

Splunk states not to use deployment server or forwarder management to manage configuration files across peer nodes in an indexer cluster, and to use the configuration bundle method instead.

Source

Do not use deployment server or forwarder management to manage configuration files across peer nodes (indexers) in an indexer cluster. Instead, use the configuration bundle method.

Splunk Docs: About deployment server and forwarder management, checked August 2026
#deployment-server#clustering

Now you: objective 11.6 questions

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Sample question 1 of 2

11-6Forwarder Management

You try to push an app to three search head cluster members with the deployment server and find that path is not supported. Which tool distributes apps across the members?

Sample question 2 of 2

11-6Forwarder Management

Deployment server cannot update indexer cluster peers directly, but one cluster component can still take its updates and pass them along. Which component is that?

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