topic Re: Pinger configuration on windows in All Apps and Add-ons

Pinger configuration on windows

ilv2splunk — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:49:45 GMT

I am hoping to get pinger up and running within windows.
Can it work through a proxy?

I have created pinger.conf but within pinger overview I am not getting anything in the drop down list site: it only has "all sites"

guessing it will have a list of the sites you add to the pinger.conf site.

I have restarted splunk and modified the inputs.conf so it looks like:

[script://.\bin\heartbeat.py]
interval = 60
index = main
sourcetype = sla_heartbeat
source = sla_heartbeat
disabled = false

What am I missing. Is there a log file I can look into somewhere for more info.

Updated
Ok so with the new version of pinger released hours ago I now get errors in the splunkd.log

05-17-2012 10:30:29.195 +1000 ERROR ExecProcessor - message from "python "C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\pinger\bin\heartbeat.py"" Traceback (most recent call last):
05-17-2012 10:30:29.195 +1000 ERROR ExecProcessor - message from "python "C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\pinger\bin\heartbeat.py"" File "C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\pinger\bin\heartbeat.py", line 151, in
05-17-2012 10:30:29.195 +1000 ERROR ExecProcessor - message from "python "C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\pinger\bin\heartbeat.py"" print dt.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") + " site=" + uselabel + " domain=" + settings["host"] + " resource=" + useresource + " location=" + location + " status=" + code + " connect_time=" + str(cdelta.seconds) + "." + str(cdelta.microseconds) + " request_time=0.0 bytes=0 dns=0.0 prod=" + prod + " ext=" + ext + " message=\"" + msg + "\""
05-17-2012 10:30:29.195 +1000 ERROR ExecProcessor - message from "python "C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\pinger\bin\heartbeat.py"" NameError: name 'dt' is not defined
05-17-2012 10:30:29.195 +1000 INFO ExecProcessor - Ran script: python "C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\pinger\bin\heartbeat.py", took 10.92 seconds to run, 0 bytes read, exited with code 1

Re: Pinger configuration on windows

gooza — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:20:01 GMT

OK , did you succeeded in running the script manually via the CLI splunk cmd python .bin\heartbeat.py maybe that will give you some errors to follow on ...

Re: Pinger configuration on windows

ilv2splunk — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:43:30 GMT

C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin> .\splunk.exe cmd python .\heartbeat.py
splunk.exe : No handlers could be found for logger "splunk.clilib.cli_common"

I have searched and found the following:
http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/38496/43-breaks-the-python-api-searches

That must not be the issue as I still can not run it after following the answer provided.

Thanks for the assistance Gooza I am very much a Splunk noob.

Re: Pinger configuration on windows

pstout — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:50:09 GMT

Hi! I'm Paul and Pinger is my creation.

I included Windows directions in the README.txt in the app root but I'll paste the net here:

Windows uses different path delimiters from *NIX or Mac.  You must recreate
the scripted input in local/inputs.conf and reverse the direction of the
slashes.  i.e.:

[script://./bin/heartbeat.py]

should become:

[script://.\bin\heartbeat.py]

on Windows ONLY. Be sure that you clone the stanza in inputs.conf and don't
edit the default!

Sorry for the confusion! I'll try to find a way to make that more visible.

Also, the list of sites will populate within one hour. You can run the saved search "pinger_populate_sites" manually if you want it to populate before that. It builds a lookup table to populate the dropdown much more quickly.

Re: Pinger configuration on windows

ilv2splunk — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:15:11 GMT

Hey Paul I read the readme.txt
I noted how I put the script in my original message.

Still have not had any luck getting it going have started using webmon instead. I do like the layout of pinger's overview better but just cant get it working or loggin any useful error messages.

Re: Pinger configuration on windows

pstout — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:16:53 GMT

Ok thanks -- please let me know if you change your mind. More than happy to work with you through the config.

Re: Pinger configuration on windows

pstout — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:04:19 GMT

I traced the issue in your original report from the logfiles. I just posted 2.2 to address this issue -- it is a bug with Pinger introduced in 2.1. Thanks for helping me find it!

Re: Pinger configuration on windows

johnlockie — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:11:53 GMT

How do you run saved search "pinger_populate_sites"? I notice with WebMon the saved searches are added as a link in the app portal. I am new to Splunk and exploring some of the features. So I apologize for my ignorance 🙂

Update: I found it under "Searches and Reports" when clicking "Manager" link at the top right. But it doesn't update the list 😛

Re: Pinger configuration on windows

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Re: Pinger configuration on windows

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Re: Pinger configuration on windows

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Re: Pinger configuration on windows

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Re: Pinger configuration on windows

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