Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect Practice Test

What does setting site=site0 on all SHC members accomplish in a multisite indexer cluster?

1. Disables search site affinity.

2. Sets all members to dynamic captaincy.

3. Enables multisite search artifact replication.

4. Enables automatic search site affinity discovery.

The correct answer is: Disables search site affinity.

Setting site=site0 on all search head cluster (SHC) members in a multisite indexer cluster disables search site affinity. This means that all search heads will no longer prioritize searches routed to a specific site. Instead, by designating all search heads to the same site (site0), it allows for a more balanced search load distribution across the available indexers in the cluster, regardless of their physical location. In multisite architectures, search site affinity typically ensures that searches are executed primarily against the data residing in the same site as the user initiating the search, optimizing performance and reducing latency. By overriding this behavior and setting all search heads to site0, the system can search across all sites without preference, thus enhancing the effectiveness of searches that require data from multiple sites or where data locality is not a concern. The other options do not pertain directly to this configuration. Dynamic captaincy involves the selection of cluster captains dynamically based on certain conditions, but this is not specifically addressed by setting the site configuration. Likewise, multisite search artifact replication and automatic search site affinity discovery involve different mechanisms that don't correspond directly to the site assignment of SHC members.