topic Re: Web server message in Deployment Architecture

Web server message

echalex — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:05:49 GMT

Hi,

Is there a configuration or app I can use to show a custom message in the web UI? Basically, I want to warn users of a coming service break.

Thanks.

Re: Web server message

dwaddle — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:47:44 GMT

You can add arbitrary content to the login page. Edit web.conf and update the login_content setting. From http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Webconf

login_content = <content_string>
   * Add custom content to the login page
   * Supports any text including html

Re: Web server message

echalex — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:59:47 GMT

Thanks. This is certainly one option. I was kind of hoping for a separate file, so you don't have to put the entire message on one line.

Re: Web server message

dwaddle — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:39:59 GMT

Given it can be HTML, nothing is stopping you from making one long line of tag soup. It will be harder to maintain, but you can present it to you users in a fairly clean manner.