Alerting

How do I enable alerting in Splunk?

IG1690
Loves-to-Learn

I have two SPlunk consoles - one has alerting, the other does not.  How do I add alerting to the one that doesn't have it. I do not have "Save as Alert"

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
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Hi @IG1690,

as @FelixLeh said, if you have the same permissions, both the instances can save searches as alert, if you haven't the only reason can be that your role hasn't the grants to do this.

if instead the problem is that one system cannot send eMail you have to go in [Settings -- Server Settings -- Email Settings] and setup your email server.

ciao.

Giuseppe

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Are the both full enterprise versions? Free version cannot create alerts.

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FelixLeh
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Do both User Accounts on each of the Splunk Instances have the same Permissions? (eg. User,Power,Admin)
If one of the Roles/Users does not have sufficient Permissions to create Alerts it could be the reason for the problem.

I hope this helps!

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