A customer’s deployment server is overwhelmed with forwarder connections after adding an additional 1000 clients.

The recommended solution to reduce the number of connection failures to the deployment server (DS) is to create a tiered deployment server topology. A tiered deployment server topology is a way of organizing the deployment server and its clients into multiple levels or tiers, where each tier has a different phone home interval and a different set of apps to deploy. This way, the deployment server can handle more clients without being overwhelmed by frequent connections and large app deployments. A tiered deployment server topology can also improve the performance and scalability of the deployment server, as well as reduce the network bandwidth consumption and latency.

The other options are incorrect because they either do not solve the problem or they make it worse. Option B is incorrect because reducing the phone home interval to 6 seconds will increase the number of connection failures to the DS, as it will make the clients connect more often and put more load on the DS. Option C is incorrect because leaving the phone home interval at 60 seconds will not reduce the number of connection failures to the DS, as it will not change the current situation. Option D is incorrect because increasing the phone home interval to 600 seconds will reduce the number of connection failures to the DS, but it will also reduce the responsiveness and reliability of the deployment server, as it will make the clients connect less often and delay the app deployments. References:

Splunk Core Consultant knowledge source documents or study guide: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/resources/splunk-certification-exam-study-guide.html

Splunk Test Blueprint Consultant: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/pdfs/training/splunk-test-blueprint-consultant.pdf

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