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How to enable basic authentication in Splunk addon builder rest api input?

ansif
Motivator

How to enable basic authentication in Splunk addon builder rest api input?

Document has following details

If you added a Global Account field to your data input parameters, select Enable basic authentication if you want to include the username and password values in the HTTP header using HTTP Basic Authentication.

But where can I find "Enable basic authentication"

1 Solution

chli_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Firstly you need to drag & drop Global Account in this page

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And then you can see one check box in the next page

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chli_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Firstly you need to drag & drop Global Account in this page

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And then you can see one check box in the next page

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Sparky1
Explorer

I'm having the same issue and enabling basic authentication by adding the global account add-in, doesn't help.

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chli_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Do you have exact same configurations as I posted? If yes, that's a bug. Please join slack channel add-on-builder in splunk-usergroups workspace, then we can have a live talk. Thanks.

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