topic Re: External Scripts in Getting Data In

External Scripts

vaishnavi07 — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 09:25:22 GMT

Hi all. I need to get data from Splunk by invoking an external scrip(Python etc..). Directly when i run the script i need to get the output data. For e.g i need to get the data from an index "CDM" Is there a way to do it? How to start with this? Thanks in advance.

Re: External Scripts

paramagurukarth — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:59:36 GMT

Check for the availability of the REST end point for those resources..
you can even execute queries...

Refer the below link
http://dev.splunk.com/restapi

Re: External Scripts

woodcock — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:14:18 GMT

You need a scripted input:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/AdvancedDev/ScriptedInputsIntro

Re: External Scripts

jacobwilkins — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:23:08 GMT

It sounds like you are wanting a Python script that dispatches a search in Splunk, and then returns the results?

If that is the case, check out the Python SDK. I think one of the example scripts does what you want.