How to pass the login username in a drilldown link to an external website?

[sjlin]

Hi all,

I want to pass the login username in a drilldown link to an external website.
How can I achieve that?

Any help is appreciated.

[jeffland]

You can fetch the currently logged in user in .js with

var service = mvc.createService({owner: "nobody"});
service.currentUser(function(err, user) {
    userName = user.properties().username;
});

and place userName in a token from there. You could also run a search such as

| rest /services/authentication/current-context/context | search username!="splunk-system-user" | table username

and work with the result (which should be the current user), but AFAIK you still need to do this in javascript as there is no way to directly place a search result into a token (imagine a search such as index=_internal, how is that supposed to fit into a token?).

[sjlin]

Thanks for your advice very much.
But I don't know how to add a js to my dashboard...

[jeffland]

You place the .js file in

%SPLUNK_BASE/etc/apps/%appname%/appserver/static/

and reference it in your dashboard with

<dashboard script="your_script.js">
  ...