Dashboards & Visualizations

Shell script via button click

splunkn
Communicator

Is it possible to call a shell script from dashboard button click.

maurelio79
Communicator

Hi, you need to put the script in bin directory of your app and via javascript get the clicked event and run a splunk search like

| your_script.sh

Maybe you need to cenvert your dashboard in html dashboard.

Have a look also here
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.3/Search/Writeasearchcommand

Regards.

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