topic Re: Trigger a SOAP request after field check in Dashboards & Visualizations

Trigger a SOAP request after field check

DotTest37 — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:49:08 GMT

I have a request for something rather complex.

I have a Web App behind a BigIP load balancer, I set the BigIP to send me the whole transaction to splunk as it happens.
Im extracting already the fiels,, and I need the following:
- As soon as one XML response comes back with certain combination of the two fields, I need to trigger a SOAP request, get the answer and display on splunk again.

Can Splunk trigger a SOAP request based on a condition of values received as input?

Re: Trigger a SOAP request after field check

gkanapathy — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:22:12 GMT

If you simply mean that you want to look up a value from an external system when viewing results, then you might be looking for a scripted lookup.

If you mean for some program to be triggered when Splunk sees some matching condition based on indexed data, then you probably need a real-time alert, triggering a program you can provide to run the request.

It's not clear what you mean, because you mention "as soon as a response" comes back, implying this is something that should happen when data is indexed, but you also mention "displaying" it in Splunk, implying that this only happens when there is a user interacting and searching data.

Re: Trigger a SOAP request after field check

DotTest37 — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:24:48 GMT

Let me see if I explain better:
-I have an F5 load Balancer, the web app behind takes parameters on a SOAP requests (username, password, etc, and a phone number),, then it responds with an XML stream, with some values, and also a TRUE/FALSE flag. All those requests are sent via syslog to my Splunk.
I need to make Splunk, to generate another SOAP request to the Web Application , everytime the answer contains the flag FALSE (using that phone number as parameter for the request).

Re: Trigger a SOAP request after field check

DotTest37 — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:25:12 GMT

(Obviusly, the Balancer will send the whole request and answer from that transaction back to Splunk since it is sending everything anyways,, so I dont think I need to do anything else on splunk,, other than take the phone number (when the Flag is false) and add it as parameter on the new SOAP request)
Im looking for where to start 🙂
Thanks!!

Re: Trigger a SOAP request after field check

guarisma — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 15:39:13 GMT

Did you find a solution?
I'm about to start something similar by creating my own alert_ app