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Splunk DB Connect 2: What is the best practice for configuring [mi_inputs]?

chawagon03
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Long story short. We use DB Connect to pull data. Recently packaged an app for testing purposes to put on another instance, but realized DB Connect information wasn't being included in the app when packaged since the Name Input > App was set to Splunk DB Connect. Changing that seems to have fixed my packaging issue and works great.

Here is the real question. We recently decided to copy the stanza in inputs.conf and manually create 6 more since db table was the only thing changing. Rising column is set and using that to track changes. When I added the new stanzas, the data was indexing properly. I looked in the inputs and noticed that {app folder}/local/inputs.conf looked great and nothing was changed, but noticed that {db connect 2.0}/local/inputs.conf was copying over the [mi_input] name and placing the tail_rising_column_checkpoint_value=value here and a disable=1 - thats it.

Is this normal? And/or something I need to worry about? Could some sort of permissions regarding the connection or something be causing this?

Thanks

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araitz
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

That is normal. We store the rising column checkpoint value in inputs.conf.

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araitz
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

That is normal. We store the rising column checkpoint value in inputs.conf.

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