Unauthenticated dashboard

[bmacias84]

Hello,

I don’t know about you, but every so often I get the request for a dashboard that does not require a user to authenticate and/or timeout. Prior to 6.x the time out issue could be solved using jscript. Still execs/management do not like to login (It should be like magic doesn’t the system know who I am! Joking just a little). Has anyone found a solution to this yet.

[bmacias84 · Accepted solution]

The easiest way I found was to build django app. where I did not want users to authenticate I created a new view in view.py and remove the @login_required decorator rendered it to a template. I realized this that Splunk use the django framework and should I bide by the same rule and conventions.

1. Create your django app
2. Create a template <yourtemplate>.html in $SPLUNK_HOME/<yourapp>/django/<yourapp>/template/

3. New create a new function in views.py located $SPLUNK_HOME/<yourapp>/django/<yourapp>/
   

   
   
   # Before
   
   @render_to('<yourapp>: <yourtemplate>.html')
   
   @login_required
   
   def <yourtemplate> (request):
   
   return {
   
       "message": "Hello World from <yourapp>!",
   
       "app_name": "<yourapp> :"
   
   }
   
   # After
   
   @render_to('<yourapp>: <yourtemplate>.html')
   
   def <yourtemplate> (request):
   
   return {
   
       "message": "Hello World from <yourapp>!",
   
       "app_name": "<yourapp> :"
   
   }
   
   

4. Don’t forget to add the new template to urls.py

[woodcock]

Did anybody even try this? I am using v6.1.2 and when I got to my django URL (with "@login_required" removed) it does the same as every other Splunk URL: It prompts me to login!

[bmacias84]

You could use the Jscript SDK and embed your search. Also you might call a saved search owned by a user. Your best answer is to use the jscript or python sdk and which can uses embedded credentials.

[laserval]

How would you go about running search jobs on this unauthenticated dashboard? I know I was trying it out a while ago and had trouble getting searches to run. I suppose you need to supply a user that can run the searches, but is an unauthenticated session allowed to do that?