https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425094#M10042 <P>unfortunately i can't accept another answer, but this also solves my problem. Thank you!</P> Thu, 31 May 2018 08:58:08 GMT Cbr1sg 2018-05-31T08:58:08Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425090#M10038 <P>Hello all,<BR /> I want to setup Splunk in such a way that when an user logins to the dashboard, Splunk would be able to detect the name of user (preferably via LDAP search) and say "hello Mr. ABC, welcome to the dashboard blah blah" and it will also automatically search for the data related to that specific user and display the data without manual input from user himself.</P> <P>Is it possible and how can it be done in Splunk? Thanks</P> Thu, 31 May 2018 08:09:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425090#M10038 Cbr1sg 2018-05-31T08:09:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425091#M10039 <P>Is this information?</P> <P>|rest /services/authentication/current-context/context</P> Thu, 31 May 2018 08:39:11 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425091#M10039 HiroshiSatoh 2018-05-31T08:39:11Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425092#M10040 <P>Search query:</P> <PRE><CODE>| rest /services/authentication/current-context | where username!="splunk-system-user" | fields username| replace * with "Welcome \"*\" !" in username </CODE></PRE> <P>Create a dashboard panel<BR /> Set the Visualization to "single value"<BR /> as like u may customize your search query and pass the username to load user related results</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="alt text"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/5070i6426EB5DE1DD2605/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></span></P> Thu, 31 May 2018 08:47:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425092#M10040 splunker12er 2018-05-31T08:47:39Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425093#M10041 <P>Exactly what I'm looking for. thank you very much</P> Thu, 31 May 2018 08:56:59 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425093#M10041 Cbr1sg 2018-05-31T08:56:59Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425094#M10042 <P>unfortunately i can't accept another answer, but this also solves my problem. Thank you!</P> Thu, 31 May 2018 08:58:08 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425094#M10042 Cbr1sg 2018-05-31T08:58:08Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425095#M10043 <P>There are some such useful details are readily available in splunk token.<BR /> You can use that in your html and search...<BR /> <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/7.0.3/Viz/tokens#Use_global_tokens_to_access_environment_information">Check this</A></P> Thu, 31 May 2018 09:30:56 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425095#M10043 paramagurukarth 2018-05-31T09:30:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425096#M10044 <P>But you can accept the best answer</P> Thu, 31 May 2018 09:31:51 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425096#M10044 paramagurukarth 2018-05-31T09:31:51Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425097#M10045 <P>very useful info, thank you!</P> Thu, 31 May 2018 09:37:11 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425097#M10045 Cbr1sg 2018-05-31T09:37:11Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425098#M10046 <P>Always welcome</P> Thu, 31 May 2018 09:56:45 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-to-setup-auto-search-based-on-login-name/m-p/425098#M10046 paramagurukarth 2018-05-31T09:56:45Z