Configure DB Connect App Programatically

[rfitch]

I'd like to add and remove DB Connect configurations programatically. Has anyone tried this? I'm guessing I can just add / remove entries to the db_connections.conf, inputs.conf, and identities.conf.

For the identities.conf, if I put the password in there plain text, will Splunk hash it for me, or is there a way I can do that ahead of time?

[jcoates_splunk]

I'd advise using DB Connect 3 if you're going to use automatic configuration. The different types of inputs are separated into different files, rising column checkpoints are separated into a different location, and SQL parsing is strictly WYSIWYG. One gotcha in 3.0.0 is that you've got to "seed" the rising column file in your script.

[rfitch]

Found the answer, credentials can be added using curl.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/2.4.0/DeployDBX/javaspec

[sloshburch]

Alternatively, I wonder if there's a REST api that you can use for generating the new connection. That's because typically conf file updates require a restart of splunkd while REST calls often do not.