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Can I use a python script on a Windows universal forwarder?

ryuch2002 — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 03:38:02 GMT

os: windows 7-64bit / splunk 6.2.0 / universal forwarder 6.2.0

current my python inputs.conf

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

i know that universal forwarder doesn't include python bundle, but i want python script on the universal forwarder.

i tried python install and set [script://python_path\python .\bin\test\test.py], but it failed.

Is there any way?

Re: Can I use a python script on a Windows universal forwarder?

lguinn2 — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 04:28:28 GMT

Yes! You can run Python scripts on the UF. But, you need to launch your script from within a shell script (or BAT script on Windows).

So your inputs.conf would be

[script://.\bin\test\launchtest.sh]

And launchtest.sh would contain something like this

#!/bin/sh
# launch the python script 
# you could include environment variables, more specific path names, etc as needed
./test.py

Make sure that launchtest.sh is executable. Thats's all you need!

Re: Can I use a python script on a Windows universal forwarder?

ryuch2002 — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 01:35:04 GMT

Thank you for answers.
Fixed an issue thanks to you.

Re: Can I use a python script on a Windows universal forwarder?

meenuvn — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 21:33:22 GMT

Do we need to install Python to run the script? Or UF comes with Python interpreter?

Re: Can I use a python script on a Windows universal forwarder?

ryuch2002 — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 23:53:19 GMT

I installed Python in windows, and set PYTHON_HOME. try it.

Re: Can I use a python script on a Windows universal forwarder?

ajitshukla — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:05:26 GMT

could you please provide me steps to run the python script on universal forwarder ,since I am new to splunk I don't know how to run .bat file in windows .please provide all configuration details like input.conf and other configuration file.

I would be great help for me