topic Re: Sending email to Multiple users in Alerting

Sending email to Multiple users

rsathish47 — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:24:43 GMT

I need to search data in splunk for more then 15 different users and have to send each user's results(table or chart) to other set of users and it needs to be run every day. is it possible to implement in splunk search ? if so can please provide me idea and sample example. Thanks in advance

Thanks

Sathish R

Re: Sending email to Multiple users

lukejadamec — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 12:47:18 GMT

So, you want to have the search determine who gets the email?

Re: Sending email to Multiple users

rsathish47 — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 13:23:04 GMT

yes, search will determine the recipient list

Re: Sending email to Multiple users

jtrucks — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 13:49:52 GMT

You must, in this case, use a script to send your mail. Set the alert action to run a script and have a script parse the results to determine what data to send to which email addresses.

Re: Sending email to Multiple users

MuS — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 14:50:49 GMT

adding just a bit more details to this perfect answer; take a look at this http://answers.splunk.com/answers/112040/splunk-alerting-via-email-search-result-defines-who-gets-email

Re: Sending email to Multiple users

rsathish47 — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:41:46 GMT

Thanks for the reply.. I will check this..

Re: Sending email to Multiple users

rsathish47 — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:06:58 GMT

if you have any smple example Pls post it Thanks in advance

Re: Sending email to Multiple users

MuS — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:28:17 GMT

rsathish47, examples are provided here http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0/alert/ConfiguringScriptedAlerts just read the page and create your script that will meet your system OS flavor in regards of 'how to send an email from this server'.