topic Re: external script in commands.conf to create key/value pair in Getting Data In

external script in commands.conf to create key/value pair

pkeller — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:30:59 GMT

I've created a script that, when called from the search bar using:

|script foo.py | outputtext

it outputs a table containing one unnamed column containing the script output and an empty _raw column.
If the output is "key=value", is there a downstream command I can use that will actually create that field and value?

Re: external script in commands.conf to create key/value pair

steveyz — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:57:31 GMT

you can probably use the extract/kv command, something along the lines of

... | kv kvdelim="=" pairdelim=" "

that is assuming that if you have multiple key-value pairs they are seperated by space.

see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.0/SearchReference/Extract for more details.

Re: external script in commands.conf to create key/value pair

pkeller — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:34:52 GMT

The kv command didn't quite work for me, as the output isn't part of _raw ... outputtext prints the output as its own field header ... But, if I modify the script to produce two unique lines of output ...

key
value

Then, the splunk output creates a field named key and with the contents of the 2nd line of output as the value. That works well for my needs.

The only issue would be why Splunk is producing 2 rows containing null values. ( I can remedy that using | search value!="" )

Re: external script in commands.conf to create key/value pair

steveyz — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:51:03 GMT

what is the actual name of the field that contains output? It can't actually be "unnamed". whatever the name is, you can copy it into _raw via eval

... | eval _raw = your_field_name