topic Index rights in Deployment Architecture

Index rights

arkonner — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 07:40:49 GMT

A new index has been created by a splunk's user with admin rights - Only this user is able to use it; the other user with the same rights are unable to use it in a search - where these access rights should be granted in splunk.

Re: Index rights

esix_splunk — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 10:10:56 GMT

You can specify which indexes are searchable by default to users via user roles and rights, based on user or group. See the docs :

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Aboutusersandroles

Re: Index rights

DennisMohn — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:54:05 GMT

Is the other user able to use the index by issuing the search command index=yourindexname?

You have to set the indices which are used by default via "Settings => Access controls => Roles => RoleName => Indexes searched by default"

Re: Index rights

arkonner — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:50:10 GMT

This to confirm that the user is able to run a search using this index but not through a dashboard.