topic Saved Search Owner Gone in Splunk Search

Saved Search Owner Gone

ironhalo — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:09:43 GMT

If the user who owns a saved search is locked our or deleted, what will become of their saved searches? Do I need to modify the local.meta file, or will the jobs simply become orphaned? If they become orphaned, will they still run?

Re: Saved Search Owner Gone

Takajian — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:34:40 GMT

If you delete user, the saved search owned by the user will be deleted. Configuration owned by user is stored in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/user directory. If you remove the user completely, those configuration will be also removed.

Re: Saved Search Owner Gone

lguinn2 — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:09:58 GMT

If you delete a user, the PRIVATE saved searches owned by the user will be deleted. If the user has SHARED any searches (or other knowledge objects), they will still exist.

The shared knowledge objects will still have the deleted user's name attached to them; they may be deleted by the Splunk admin. However, I don't think there is any mechanism for the Splunk admin to assign the saved searches to another user.

Re: Saved Search Owner Gone

lguinn2 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:36:10 GMT

Although you could do this:

Determine the app that the savedsearch (or tag or eventtype etc) belongs to. Edit the file
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/[appname]/metadata/local.meta

Find the item(s) that need to be changed, and update the owner field.

This should change the owner. AFAIK, there is no way to do this from the GUI.

Re: Saved Search Owner Gone

bosburn_splunk — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 18:49:43 GMT

For those of you on *Nix machines would be able to do something like this:
cd $SPLUNK_HOME/etc
for x in find . -name 'local.meta'; do cp $x $x.old ; sed s/olduser/newuser/ < $x > $x.new ; mv -f $x.new $x ; done
This will make a backup of the local.meta, swap out the olduser for the newuser and copy it over the local.meta. All you should have to do is restart Splunk.
Brian

Re: Saved Search Owner Gone

woodcock — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:43:05 GMT

Only those searches that have Private permissions; the ones with App or Global are located elsewhere and will not be deleted but will switch to ownership of nobody.

Re: Saved Search Owner Gone

tweaktubbie — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 08:13:35 GMT

Would be handy if reassign was implemented; in 6.4 orphaned searches are brought to your attention, but the only solution to make it work again is clone to something renamed, remove the original search, and clone to the original name again (and remove the temp clone).