Alerting

How do I get the alert to use host as a token?

andrew_burnett
Path Finder

I want to create a custom alert action that when the alert fires, it takes the host from the search results, and uses it is a token to remotely restart a host. I can get the REST URL right, but how do I get the alert to use host as a token?

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Fields from the first row of results are available as tokens to be passed to the custom action - $result.field$

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andrew_burnett
Path Finder

Can you show me how that would sort of look?

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Start with a search which finds the hosts that you want to alert on.

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andrew_burnett
Path Finder

So what I have is this so far, in alert actions.conf. Already have the search, dealing with the alert portion.

[restart_splunk]

is_custom = 1

filename = restart.sh

 

In /opt/bin/scripts, I have this script

curl -k -u admin:test1234 https://$result.host$:8089/services/server/control/restart -X POST

 

 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The script doesn't have access to the tokens, they would need to be passed as arguments to your script.

Advanced options for working with custom alert actions - Splunk Documentation

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andrew_burnett
Path Finder

Yeah I keep getting this 

andrew_burnett_0-1652462733369.png

 

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andrew_burnett
Path Finder

It isn't finding the script, will keep trying

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