CompTIA Linux+ XK0-006 (V8) Practice Question

The correct answer is to deploy a log aggregation solution. Log aggregation is the process of collecting logs from multiple sources and consolidating them into a single, centralized location. This allows an administrator to search, analyze, and correlate events across the entire infrastructure from one interface, which directly solves the inefficiency of checking each server manually. Tools like Fluentd, Logstash, or services like Graylog and the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) are commonly used for this purpose.

Configuring SNMP to send traps is incorrect because SNMP is primarily a protocol for monitoring device health and status metrics, not for collecting high-volume, detailed log entries. While traps can alert on specific events, they are not designed to handle the full stream of logs needed for in-depth troubleshooting.

Using a cron job to email log files is an inefficient and non-scalable approach. It would flood an administrator's inbox, logs would not be available in real-time, and searching across many email attachments would be extremely difficult.

Increasing the log rotation frequency addresses disk space management by archiving old logs more often. This is unrelated to the problem of centralizing logs for easier analysis and would not help the administrator correlate events across different servers.