topic Re: UserID variable in Dashboards & Visualizations

UserID variable

clement — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 03:38:04 GMT

Hi There,

I would like to parse the current Splunk login userid via the URL to the next dashboard, may I know what is the variable name?

Regards,
Clement

Re: UserID variable

somesoni2 — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:56:13 GMT

You can get the current logged in user by this query

| rest /services/authentication/current-context | search username!="splunk-system-user"| table realname username  roles

Since this can be run in the next dashboard directly, you don't have to pass it, but again depends on what you're trying to do.

Re: UserID variable

clement — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 07:33:50 GMT

Thanks! Somesoni2 for your prompt reply.

I should explain in more detail on my requirement, I have converted my xml based dashboard to HTML, I hide the Launcher navigation bar on the top of the dashboard and created hyperlink to the URL below, but I need to replace the in the hyperlink to allow user to change their password:
https://:8000/en-US/manager/launcher/authentication/changepassword/?action=edit

Could you advice how to grab UserID in HTML dashboard?

Regards,
Clement