topic Re: CLI help in Installation

CLI help

magnuscowie80 — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 18:59:54 GMT

Hi everyone, does anyone know a way of running splunk admin commands via a script. I need to run ./splunk reload deploy-server via cron job

Re: CLI help

richgalloway — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:21:45 GMT

If you can type it on the command line then you should be able to put it in a script. Just be sure to include credentials with commands that need them.

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk reload deploy-server -auth user:password

Re: CLI help

isoutamo — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:42:01 GMT

The biggest issue would be, how to secure your credentials, so other cannot see those and use later on.
One way to do this is e.g. use ansible tower with callback on source node and then use ansible vault to store/crypt credentials. I suppose that there are some other ways too to do it.
r. Ismo

Re: CLI help

magnuscowie80 — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 21:04:07 GMT

That is the issue, securing my your credentials, I am guessing am going to be learning ansible.. thanks for the reply

Re: CLI help

vikramyadav — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 23:47:32 GMT

Hi @magnuscowie80 , you can automate Splunk deployment by using ansible. You can integrate ansible and Splunk that will be much efficient and easier than the script.

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Re: CLI help

isoutamo — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:12:32 GMT

Just look ansible attribute no_log and use ansible vault to secure your credentials and passwords on your repositories.