https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-Do-I-Make-Host-Tags-Viewable-By-Everyone/m-p/83897#M2784 <P>Have you seen this topic: <A href="http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/26585/force-tags-to-be-public-upon-creation">http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/26585/force-tags-to-be-public-upon-creation</A> ? While the solution isn't publically posted, it sounds like there is a way to do it.</P> <P>The other option I can think of would be to run a scheduled script that takes the tags.conf file from each Splunk user's directory and merges them into one tags.conf file in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/. Optionally, the script could do some more advanced processing/filtering to only copy specific tags to the /local tags.conf. The downfall here is that Splunk needs to be restarted after the tags.conf file is changed for the changes to be seen.</P> Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:50:09 GMT rtadams89 2011-12-21T15:50:09Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-Do-I-Make-Host-Tags-Viewable-By-Everyone/m-p/83896#M2783 <P>Per billbender's question asked back in 23 Mar...<BR /> Was this feature still not added in any of the 4.2.x versions?</P> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:51:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-Do-I-Make-Host-Tags-Viewable-By-Everyone/m-p/83896#M2783 gekoner 2011-09-29T22:51:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-Do-I-Make-Host-Tags-Viewable-By-Everyone/m-p/83897#M2784 <P>Have you seen this topic: <A href="http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/26585/force-tags-to-be-public-upon-creation">http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/26585/force-tags-to-be-public-upon-creation</A> ? While the solution isn't publically posted, it sounds like there is a way to do it.</P> <P>The other option I can think of would be to run a scheduled script that takes the tags.conf file from each Splunk user's directory and merges them into one tags.conf file in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/. Optionally, the script could do some more advanced processing/filtering to only copy specific tags to the /local tags.conf. The downfall here is that Splunk needs to be restarted after the tags.conf file is changed for the changes to be seen.</P> Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:50:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-Do-I-Make-Host-Tags-Viewable-By-Everyone/m-p/83897#M2784 rtadams89 2011-12-21T15:50:09Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-Do-I-Make-Host-Tags-Viewable-By-Everyone/m-p/83898#M2785 <P>OK, so you are saying it is still not a feature in the current version, but there are workarounds, albeit messy ones. But aren't they always?</P> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:55:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/How-Do-I-Make-Host-Tags-Viewable-By-Everyone/m-p/83898#M2785 gekoner 2012-01-18T16:55:48Z