Deployment Architecture

Is there a way to invoke a REST command to validate whether a certain ldap group is available on a Search Head?

ddrillic
Ultra Champion

As we embark new customers into Splunk, we are trying to automate the validations process. One challenges is to find out whether the "new" ldap group for the new customer is accessible via the Search Head.

Is there a way to invoke a REST command which would validate it? We normally run our validations via a python script...

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Do you want to check if an LDAP group is setup (as role) in your search head?

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Claw
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

All of these kinds of actions are documented here
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/RESTREF/RESTaccess

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