topic Running a script via a button call in Getting Data In

Running a script via a button call

rohithvr19 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:02:19 GMT

Is it possible to execute a script through a button click and display the script's output on a Splunk dashboard? Has anyone implemented something similar before? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated, as I am currently stuck on this. Thank you!

Re: Running a script via a button call

kamlesh_vaghela — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:49:34 GMT

@rohithvr19

Please check my answer below.

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Can-I-call-a-Python-script-from-a-dashboard-and-output-its/m-p/398088

Thanks
KV
An upvote would be appreciated if any of my replies help you solve the problem or gain knowledge.

Re: Running a script via a button call

oO0NeoN0Oo — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:55:35 GMT

Hi bud,

Have you tried creating a <p> on the dashboard and telling the script to display it?

<dashboard version="1.1" script="my_js.js"> <label>My JS Output</label> <row> <panel> <html> <input type="button" value="Submit" id="submitButton" /> <h1>This is my output<h1> <p id="my_script_output"></p </html> </panel> </row> </dashboard>

Then your js:

document.getElementById("submitButton").addEventListener("click", output); function(output() { let script_output = "This is my Output." document.getElementById("my_script_output").innerHTML = script_output; }

Does depend on how complex you want it to be...

Let me know how you get on with this 👍

Regards

Re: Running a script via a button call

gcusello — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 07:43:52 GMT

Hi @rohithvr19 ,

as I said in my answer to yourp revious question it's possible, but think to your requirements, because the performance of a script button will be very very low and the better approach isn't the script execution with a button, but a near real time scheduled search, as described in https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Export-Logs-from-Zabbix-to-Splunk-Dashboard-via-API-on-Button/m-p/708529#M239598

Ciao.

Giuseppe

Re: Running a script via a button call

PickleRick — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:00:09 GMT

1. You're posting this one in a "Getting data in" section with "HEC" and "scripted input" labels. Are you sure it's really about getting data into your Splunk?

2. What kind of script are you talking about? A JS code in your browser? A script on the Search Head? Something else?

3. Are you aware of the security implications?