topic Re: Remove the Splunk monitors from CLI in Monitoring Splunk

Remove the Splunk monitors from CLI

godman — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 02:51:23 GMT

I am trying to remove some monitors and when i tried from CLI it's throwing me Error : Parameters must be in the form '-parameter value'
command used : ./splunk remove monitor /app/abcded -auth '$USERNAME:$PASSWORD'

Re: Remove the Splunk monitors from CLI

MuS — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 03:01:58 GMT

Did you try with '/app/abcded' ?

cheers, MuS

Re: Remove the Splunk monitors from CLI

deepashri_123 — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 05:33:21 GMT

Hey@godman,

Can you try this syntax:
./splunk remove monitor -source

Let me know if this helps!!!

Re: Remove the Splunk monitors from CLI

mayurr98 — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 12:24:43 GMT

Hello

Have a look at this remove monitor syntax given in this doc
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.2/Data/MonitorfilesanddirectoriesusingtheCLI#CLI_commands_for_input_configuration

Try this

./splunk remove monitor -source <source>

let me know if this helps!

Re: Remove the Splunk monitors from CLI

godman — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:59:29 GMT

Tried adding with the -source in the CLI and unfortunately same Error.

Re: Remove the Splunk monitors from CLI

mayurr98 — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:31:07 GMT

have a look at this
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/242495/what-is-parameters-must-be-in-the-form-parameter-v.html
dont put -auth '$USERNAME:$PASSWORD' and try

Re: Remove the Splunk monitors from CLI

mstjohn_splunk — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 21:50:33 GMT

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Re: Remove the Splunk monitors from CLI

godman — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:43:30 GMT

I found the solution, by adding the -index to the command it worked :

{noformat}
./splunk remove monitor -source -index

{noformat}