topic help need with add oneshot CLI in Splunk Search

help need with add oneshot CLI

desi — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:31:00 GMT

Hello, i am trying to run add oneshot from cli but keep getting following error:

C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>splunk add oneshot "C:\csv\test.csv" -sourcetype csv -index csv_index -source test -auth admin:changeme

In handler 'oneshotinput': Only one "name" parameter can be specified.

help please

thanks

Re: help need with add oneshot CLI

bwooden — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:09:03 GMT

You can't name a source in oneshot (as it is already named as the file to add). Fortunately, a workaround discussion already exists: how-do-you-override-source-on-a-oneshot

Re: help need with add oneshot CLI

Steve_G_ — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:08:30 GMT

See this topic in the docs for information on the "rename-source" parameter:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/MonitorfilesanddirectoriesusingtheCLI