https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Passing-Custom-Variable-to-Trigger-shell-script/m-p/38170#M7003 <P>There are 9 parameters that are passed to the Shell script from Splunk, with the one being unused. Is it possible to use that 7th (depreciated) variable to pass a field like ServerName or some such?</P> <P>(<A href="http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/Configurescriptedalerts">http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/Configurescriptedalerts</A>)</P> <P>Right now we have a global scheduled search across servers to trigger an SNMP trap ... it would be nice to be able to pass a specific server name along with the other information currently sent.<BR /> This can be done if an individual report is created for each server, but that would be tedious.</P> <P>Thoughts?</P> <P>~jt</P> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:10:06 GMT jitter 2011-07-05T19:10:06Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Passing-Custom-Variable-to-Trigger-shell-script/m-p/38170#M7003 <P>There are 9 parameters that are passed to the Shell script from Splunk, with the one being unused. Is it possible to use that 7th (depreciated) variable to pass a field like ServerName or some such?</P> <P>(<A href="http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/Configurescriptedalerts">http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/Configurescriptedalerts</A>)</P> <P>Right now we have a global scheduled search across servers to trigger an SNMP trap ... it would be nice to be able to pass a specific server name along with the other information currently sent.<BR /> This can be done if an individual report is created for each server, but that would be tedious.</P> <P>Thoughts?</P> <P>~jt</P> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:10:06 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Passing-Custom-Variable-to-Trigger-shell-script/m-p/38170#M7003 jitter 2011-07-05T19:10:06Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Passing-Custom-Variable-to-Trigger-shell-script/m-p/38171#M7004 <P>You can read the Splunk_Arg_8 parameter passed, parse the contents of the file for ServerName and use that.</P> <P>If you do not have a program for converting GZ to CSV, Splunk includes a command-line converter called minigzip.exe in %SPLUNK_HOME%\bin.</P> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:28:17 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Passing-Custom-Variable-to-Trigger-shell-script/m-p/38171#M7004 richprescott 2020-09-28T11:28:17Z