topic Re: Creating a script to gather machine performance in Knowledge Management

Creating a script to gather machine performance

AleZ214 — Fri, 24 May 2024 04:07:23 GMT

Hello, Ive been trying to set up a script to run every 5 minutes with cronjob in a CentOS enviorement

Heres the script and its configuration using cron

input.conf

This configuration is in my machine 3, configurated as UF
Already created system_metrics index in my Indexer GUI
When I try to search for "index=system_metrics sourcetype=linux_performance" in my machine 2 GUI configurated as SH theres no data, can someone help me or give me some instructions please? Thanks!

Re: Creating a script to gather machine performance

gcusello — Fri, 24 May 2024 05:46:30 GMT

Hi @AleZ214,

three questions (where the third could be the anwer of the second):

did you checked the grants and the user running your script?
how do you run your script, did you used the script command in inputs.conf?
why did you created your script, isn'rt the script to have the same thing in the Splunk_TA_nix (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/833) sufficient for you?

in other words, if you cannot use the sript in the above app, see how it's managed and copy the approach for your.

Ciao.

Giuseppe