https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Connect-catalog-database-using-DB-Connect/m-p/127808#M7685 <P>Hi Splunkers,</P> <UL> <LI>How to connect catalog database using dbconnect application? </LI> <LI>Is there any app provides support to load data from catalog database?</LI> </UL> <P>Give some sample config or share some thoughts on this.</P> <P>Thanks!</P> Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:04:43 GMT vasanthmss 2014-11-20T06:04:43Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Connect-catalog-database-using-DB-Connect/m-p/127808#M7685 <P>Hi Splunkers,</P> <UL> <LI>How to connect catalog database using dbconnect application? </LI> <LI>Is there any app provides support to load data from catalog database?</LI> </UL> <P>Give some sample config or share some thoughts on this.</P> <P>Thanks!</P> Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:04:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Connect-catalog-database-using-DB-Connect/m-p/127808#M7685 vasanthmss 2014-11-20T06:04:43Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Connect-catalog-database-using-DB-Connect/m-p/127809#M7686 <P>There's a list of <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/1.1.5/DeployDBX/Deploymentrequirements#Supported_databases">supported databases</A> that DBX supports connecting to once <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/latest/DeployDBX/Installdrivers">you provide the appropriate drivers</A> you can then <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/latest/DeployDBX/Addadatabaseconnection#Create_a_new_database_connection">configure a connection in the web.ui</A>. </P> <P>Under the hood however, Splunk is just working with a Java server to make JDBC connections, so assuming you can provide an appropriate JDBC driver there are <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/latest/DeployDBX/DefineanewDB">docs on how to define your own database type</A>, although I think as I look through this sometime I'll have to try my hand at implementing my own <CODE>com.splunk.dbx.sql.type.DatabaseType</CODE> as briefly mentioned in the <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/latest/DeployDBX/database_typesspec">conf file spec</A>.</P> Fri, 21 Nov 2014 06:39:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Connect-catalog-database-using-DB-Connect/m-p/127809#M7686 acharlieh 2014-11-21T06:39:39Z