Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Practice Test

How can you clear all checkpoints in Splunk?

1. splunk clean fishbucket

2. splunk clean eventuate _thefishbucket

3. rm -r ~/splunkforwarder/var/lib/splunk/fishbucket

4. Clear all data in settings

The correct answer is: splunk clean eventuate _thefishbucket

The process of clearing all checkpoints in Splunk relates specifically to managing the fishbucket, which is where Splunk stores the state of the data that has already been processed by the Universal Forwarder. This ensures that the data is not re-ingested. When clearing these checkpoints, the command used must specifically target this context. The command that achieves this is one that refers directly to manipulating the fishbucket data within Splunk's internal logic, which is crucial in managing forwarded data and ensuring that previously processed events do not get re-evaluated. This is why the selected answer is the most appropriate for the task. The other options do not correctly target the checkpoint mechanism: one might clean the fishbucket but is incorrectly formatted and would not execute as intended, while another is a command that would forcefully delete files from a directory, which might not be safe or effective in a managed Splunk environment. The last option suggests using general settings to clear data, which does not specifically address the need to clear checkpoints for processed events effectively.