Is it possible to have a Splunk alert trigger a script that sends an SNMP message to a Windows client that will then display a pop-up?

[jhinkle]

I am wondering if it is possible to have a Splunk alert trigger a script that sends an SNMP message to a waiting Windows client that will then display a pop-up? We have operators who are monitoring our systems on Windows machines using SNMP already, but we would like for a pop-up to be displayed alerting them that there is an alert in Splunk, without them having to manually refresh the web GUI to see that there is one.

Examples of both the client and server side scripts would be appreciated as I am new to this kind of scripting. Also, it would be difficult (not impossible however) to arbitrarily install new software onto the monitoring Windows machines our operators are using, which is why I stressed batch scripts.

Ideally we'd like to have a pop-up in the browser since that seems like an easier to implement solution since that would only require work on the Splunk server side, but so far I have not found any indication that this would be possible in Splunk.

[sgailey_splunk]

Yes, once you are running a script then you can pretty much do anything. Is Splunk running on Windows or UNIX? I'll assume UNIX for now... There are several SNMP packages you can install which allows you to send an SNMP trap. You could also install something like Samba and create Windows messages directly from an alert if that would be better. You could also use Javascript in the Django framework to do this all inside Splunk. The options are endless.