Website monitoring app defaults

[afx]

Hi,
how can I set defaults for the website monitoring app? For example for including headers or the timeout.
A general stanza in inputs.conf or where?
thx
afx

[LukeMurphey · Accepted solution]

You can specify the defaults for website monitoring inputs by setting the values in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/website_monitoring/local/inputs.conf.

See $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/website_monitoring/README/inputs.conf.spec for what values it accepts.

Your inputs.conf ought to look something like this (assuming you want headers returned and a timeout of 45 seconds):

[web_ping://default]
return_headers=true
timeout=45

[afx]

Hmm,
looks like the default set there will populate the GUI settings.
I was hopig for defaults that woul be automatically used without being explicity written ito the configuration file (I have more than 100 entries in there...)

cheers
afx

[jwiedow]

@afx try creating a stanza named web_ping in local/inputs.conf and adding what you want for defaults there.

[web_ping]
index=mydefaultindex
return_headers=true
timeout=45

[afx]

Thank you, works perfectly!
afx

[afx]

Thanks,
it works, also setting the default index which is not in the spec.
thx
afx