topic Re: Not able to connect to splunk using javascript sdk in Splunk Dev

Not able to connect to splunk using javascript sdk

kavyatim — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:51:11 GMT

I installed node.js ,copied xmljson to splunk app.
Done with everything as per the document.
The client side program is as follows:

How to start a Splunk session

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
function displayApps() {
    var http = new splunkjs.ProxyHttp("/proxy");

    // Create a Service instance and log in 
    var service = new splunkjs.Service(http, {
        username:"admin",
        password:"kav$tim1",
        scheme:"http",
        host:"localhost",
        port:"8089",
        version:"5.0"
    });

   // Verify we logged in


 // First, we log in

service.login(function(err, success) {
// We check for both errors in the connection as well
// as if the login itself failed.
if (err || !success) {
console.log("Error in logging in");
done(err || "Login failed");
return;
}

    // Print installed apps to the console to verify login
    service.apps().fetch(function(err, apps) {
        if (err) {
       console.log("There was an error retrieving the list of applications:", err);
        done(err);
        return;
        }

        var myapps = "";
        var appsList = apps.list();
        console.log("Applications:");
        for(var i = 0; i < appsList.length; i++) {
            myapps += "App " + i + ": " + appsList[i].name + "<br/>"
        } 

        document.getElementById("applist").innerHTML=myapps;
    });

}
</script>

Re: Not able to connect to splunk using javascript sdk

Neeraj_Luthra — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:44:12 GMT

There are a few issues with what you are doing:

If you are on Splunk 5, you do not need xml2json, unless of course you are trying to run the unit tests.
service.login function call is missing a couple of closing parenthesis.
scheme should be https, unless you have changed the default Splunk installation.
You need to serve this page from a web server and in that web server you will need to set up the proxy. This last steps is taken care of if you run the examples through node, i.e. node sdkdo examples from the command line. This is also documented at JavaScript SDK Browser Examples.

Re: Not able to connect to splunk using javascript sdk

guilhem — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:42:29 GMT

Did you solve this problem? I have exactly the same error as you describe and would be interested in a solution.

By the way you need to use node v0.8.x (and not the latest release) as otherwise it will not work. see http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/79378/splunk-502-javascript-sdk-server-error-500-examples-browsertests

Re: Not able to connect to splunk using javascript sdk

Neeraj_Luthra — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:04:50 GMT

@guilhem - What error are you running into? Assuming that you are using node v0.8.x.

Re: Not able to connect to splunk using javascript sdk

guilhem — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:22:56 GMT

I have made another question as there is not enough room in the comment. See
http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/84184/javascript-sdk-internal-server-error

Re: Not able to connect to splunk using javascript sdk

jitendra0101 — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:17:33 GMT

Please help. Every time I am getting error message as "There was an error retrieving the list of applications".