topic Re: Scripted Inputs for *Nix in All Apps and Add-ons

Scripted Inputs for *Nix

AlexMcDuffMille — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:51:52 GMT

Hello,

I'm having a hard time funding the documentation for the scripts that come with the standard installation of the Splunk for Unix and Linux app. Where can I go to find out what kinds of statistics these scripts are actually gathering individually?

Thanks,
Alex

Re: Scripted Inputs for *Nix

lukejadamec — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:49:00 GMT

I have not found any documentation on what the scripts do either. So far as I can tell, the way you find out what the scripts do is to read the scripts.

The scripts are located in the etc/apps/unix/bin folder.

Unfortunately, there are not a lot of informative comments included in the scripts. Modifying the scripts to include comments would be an enhancement.

Re: Scripted Inputs for *Nix

AlexMcDuffMille — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:16:12 GMT

Is that on the Splunk server, or the server that I am monitoring?

Re: Scripted Inputs for *Nix

lukejadamec — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:18:26 GMT

The scripts for collecting data are on the server that is being monitored.

Re: Scripted Inputs for *Nix

adrianathome — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:59:58 GMT

You can run script manually and see the output too.

Re: Scripted Inputs for *Nix

AlexMcDuffMille — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:59:21 GMT

I'm not seeing the 'apps' directory within etc/.

I ran 'locate cpu.sh' and it did not come up with anything.

Re: Scripted Inputs for *Nix

lukejadamec — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:07:32 GMT

The scripts are in the unix app or TA_nix app depending on which one you installed. You can find them in the bin folder.
splunk/etc/apps/unix/bin
If you cannot "locate" the cpu.sh script, the you probably have a permission problem.

Re: Scripted Inputs for *Nix

Vebloud — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:19:56 GMT

There is not folder like this when I install app. Folder is splunk_app_for_nix. Its not reflected in documentation.
Also there is no setup.sh in bin folder, so how should I enable inputs?