topic Re: Splunk DB Connect in Getting Data In

Splunk DB Connect

harshavrath — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 06:38:52 GMT

Hi my team Manager has installed Splunk DB Connect App,how can i figure if he has installed the Database drivers.

Any help is Appreciated,

Cheers.

Re: Splunk DB Connect

sroback_splunk — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:56:24 GMT

Hi. Which database are you connecting to? You might try looking in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/dbx/bin/lib directory to see if the driver has been installed. For more info on driver installation, see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/latest/DeployDBX/Installdrivers

Re: Splunk DB Connect

harshavrath — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:37:28 GMT

Splunk DB Connect is installed on my machine but I'm not sure if JRE is been Installed or the DB Drivers are installed.
Please guide me through the process of setting up the Splunk DBConnect,

Re: Splunk DB Connect

harshavrath — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:38:07 GMT

I checked the SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/dbx/bin/lib directory no driver is been installed.

Re: Splunk DB Connect

sroback_splunk — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:25:46 GMT

Hi. You should be able to connect Splunk DB Connect to your Oracle db.

Here are the basic steps for setting up DB Connect:

Install the DB Connect App. (you already have the app installed, so ignore this step)
Install the JDBC drivers for Oracle. For instructions on downloading and installing the JDBC driver, see: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/latest/DeployDBX/Installdrivers
Setup your connection to the database. See:http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/latest/DeployDBX/Addadatabaseconnection

Once you have your database connection established, you can run queries against the database, and setup database inputs and outputs that let you add and index your database data in Splunk.

Hope this helps.