topic Re: Unauthenticated dashboard in Dashboards & Visualizations

Unauthenticated dashboard

bmacias84 — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 05:22:12 GMT

Hello,

I don’t know about you, but every so often I get the request for a dashboard that does not require a user to authenticate and/or timeout. Prior to 6.x the time out issue could be solved using jscript. Still execs/management do not like to login (It should be like magic doesn’t the system know who I am! Joking just a little). Has anyone found a solution to this yet.

Re: Unauthenticated dashboard

bmacias84 — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 02:30:00 GMT

The easiest way I found was to build django app. where I did not want users to authenticate I created a new view in view.py and remove the @login_required decorator rendered it to a template. I realized this that Splunk use the django framework and should I bide by the same rule and conventions.

Create your django app
Create a template <yourtemplate>.html in $SPLUNK_HOME/<yourapp>/django/<yourapp>/template/

New create a new function in views.py located $SPLUNK_HOME/<yourapp>/django/<yourapp>/



# Before

@render_to('<yourapp>: <yourtemplate>.html')

@login_required

def <yourtemplate> (request):

return {

    "message": "Hello World from <yourapp>!",

    "app_name": "<yourapp> :"

}

# After

@render_to('<yourapp>: <yourtemplate>.html')

def <yourtemplate> (request):

return {

    "message": "Hello World from <yourapp>!",

    "app_name": "<yourapp> :"

}

Don’t forget to add the new template to urls.py

Re: Unauthenticated dashboard

laserval — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:12:35 GMT

How would you go about running search jobs on this unauthenticated dashboard? I know I was trying it out a while ago and had trouble getting searches to run. I suppose you need to supply a user that can run the searches, but is an unauthenticated session allowed to do that?

Re: Unauthenticated dashboard

bmacias84 — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 02:33:15 GMT

You could use the Jscript SDK and embed your search. Also you might call a saved search owned by a user. Your best answer is to use the jscript or python sdk and which can uses embedded credentials.

Re: Unauthenticated dashboard

woodcock — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:35:01 GMT

Did anybody even try this? I am using v6.1.2 and when I got to my django URL (with "@login_required" removed) it does the same as every other Splunk URL: It prompts me to login!