https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-obtain-the-Splunk-instance-s-version-from-app-SimpleXML/m-p/365956#M66599 <P>have a look at the server/info REST endpoint: <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.0/RESTREF/RESTintrospect#GET_server.2Finfo_method_detail">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.0/RESTREF/RESTintrospect#GET_server.2Finfo_method_detail</A></P> <P>it will return a version property which is what you are looking for</P> Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:23:38 GMT lweber 2017-03-17T11:23:38Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-obtain-the-Splunk-instance-s-version-from-app-SimpleXML/m-p/365954#M66597 <P>Splunk 6.5 added global environment tokens that are accessible in SimpleXML (<A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.0/Viz/tokens#Use_global_tokens_to_access_environment_information">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.0/Viz/tokens#Use_global_tokens_to_access_environment_information</A>), one of which reports the version of the Splunk instance, <CODE>$env:version$</CODE>.</P> <P>How does one obtain the equivalent version number from an app in Splunk 6.4 or older? </P> <P>I am most interested in obtaining this value using SplunkJS or SimpleXML, e.g., a function call in SplunkJS or a <CODE>rest</CODE> search. </P> <P>I am aware some of the global environment tokens are accessible via the REST API, but I cannot seem to find anything that reports the version. A SplunkJS function call would be the most ideal.</P> <P>Here is a related question for the splunk_server value: <A href="https://answers.splunk.com/answers/506296/is-there-a-javascript-token-with-the-hostname-of-t.html">https://answers.splunk.com/answers/506296/is-there-a-javascript-token-with-the-hostname-of-t.html</A></P> Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:52:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-obtain-the-Splunk-instance-s-version-from-app-SimpleXML/m-p/365954#M66597 rjthibod 2017-03-17T10:52:39Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-obtain-the-Splunk-instance-s-version-from-app-SimpleXML/m-p/365955#M66598 <P>is this what you were after??</P> <PRE><CODE>| rest /services/apps/local | table title version </CODE></PRE> Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:23:13 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-obtain-the-Splunk-instance-s-version-from-app-SimpleXML/m-p/365955#M66598 asimagu 2017-03-17T11:23:13Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-obtain-the-Splunk-instance-s-version-from-app-SimpleXML/m-p/365956#M66599 <P>have a look at the server/info REST endpoint: <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.0/RESTREF/RESTintrospect#GET_server.2Finfo_method_detail">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.0/RESTREF/RESTintrospect#GET_server.2Finfo_method_detail</A></P> <P>it will return a version property which is what you are looking for</P> Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:23:38 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-obtain-the-Splunk-instance-s-version-from-app-SimpleXML/m-p/365956#M66599 lweber 2017-03-17T11:23:38Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-obtain-the-Splunk-instance-s-version-from-app-SimpleXML/m-p/365957#M66600 <P>Thank you. Don't know how I missed that.</P> Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:31:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-obtain-the-Splunk-instance-s-version-from-app-SimpleXML/m-p/365957#M66600 rjthibod 2017-03-17T11:31:48Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-obtain-the-Splunk-instance-s-version-from-app-SimpleXML/m-p/365958#M66601 <P>For those curious, this is the actual query that is probably the simplest. It assumes your user can be authenticated to call the REST endpoint.</P> <P><CODE>| rest splunk_server=local count=1 /services/server/info | table version</CODE></P> Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:41:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-obtain-the-Splunk-instance-s-version-from-app-SimpleXML/m-p/365958#M66601 rjthibod 2017-03-17T11:41:55Z