topic "Your session is invalid" message when using CLI in Security

"Your session is invalid" message when using CLI

seren — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:49:50 GMT

I've just upgraded to 4.2 and am having problems with command-line scripts that run splunk searches. When I run a search from the CLI, I'm prompted with:

"Your session is invalid.  Please login."

If I enter my username and password manually, it works for a while but prompts again after a period of time. This is causing my scripts to fail. Any ideas how to disable authentication from the command-line, or some other work-around? Thanks in advance.

Re: "Your session is invalid" message when using CLI

LCM — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:51:41 GMT

You have a timeout (configurable) on the UI, so as the CLI. Anyway - you either could try this one AuthToken or within your command-line script: splunk search '<search> -auth user:password - of course in that option the password is visible to anyone who can read your script, or when you do 'ps -ef'!

Re: "Your session is invalid" message when using CLI

seren — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:24:41 GMT

Thanks a lot. That was it.