Dashboards & Visualizations

Client needs to "read" .doc, .txt, .xls and pdf files that are stored in a landshare from a Splunk Dashboard

NanSplk01
Communicator

Hope someone can assist.  My client needs to be able to read word and other binary files from a dashboard without importing them into Splunk.  He has a fileshare where they store the documents and would like to read the share and have the list show in the dashboard and be able to click on a document from the file share and view the file in it's native application.  Is there a way to do this with Splunk?  

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can of course write tons of custom JS and embed that code in a Splunk dashboard. This way you could do practically anything (including - for example - running arcade games in jsmess) but will it be "in Splunk"? I don't think so.

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @NanSplk01 ,

Splunk is a search engine, not a file explorer!

you can have the list of files in a folder creating a script on the remote server that lists the files (e.g. every 15 minutes) so you can list them, but displaying the files in a dashboard in the original format with its own application isn't a job for Splunk.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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