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ccsfdave
Builder

Greetings,

Pure and simple question, how can I get DBConnect to index data? I followed the Deploy and Use DBConnect line by line but nothing I do seems to index the data. I guess the ideal would be to run a SQL query so that I may limit what needs to be indexed - but at this point, I'll take anything!

I have a column (revisionID) for the value that increments.

I feel like I have spent a long time trying to figure this out and have my ducks in a row, but just can't get it working.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Dave

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jcoates_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi, it's the Database Inputs button on the far right. You're really setting up a fancy Splunk input, see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/latest/DeployDBX/Configuredatabasemonitoring for more detail.

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gregbujak
Path Finder

Can you post your .conf file? Also, what are you seeing in your dbx.log and jbridge.log?

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jcoates_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi, it's the Database Inputs button on the far right. You're really setting up a fancy Splunk input, see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/latest/DeployDBX/Configuredatabasemonitoring for more detail.

ccsfdave
Builder

I am not sure why it wasn't working before because I had some database inputs previously, I deleted those and recreated some, now it seems to be working. Odd.

Thanks for the help!

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