Parsing default.meta with python

[kbroeker]

Hi,

in our deployment pipeline we want to check the config of an app.
At the moment I try to parse the default.meta file.
For the other confs we use the configparser and python to check our quality.

The first problem was the nameless stanza ("[]"). I don't found a way that the configparser parse stanzas without name.
The workaround was, that I "rename" the stanza before using configparser. If someone has a better variant I would be very pleased.

My problem now is, that I want to check that the "access":
access = read : [ * ], write : [ admin, power ]
I want to check if the right groups are permitted.

Any of you know what format that's written in?
Unfortunately I haven't found anything yet.

Thanks for your help.

[jmantor]

I'm running into the same issues.   btool won't even read these.  There's got to be a way to manipulate these files?

[PickleRick]

You have to do it manually. Format of the file is documented here - https://help.splunk.com/en/data-management/splunk-enterprise-admin-manual/10.4/configuration-file-re... (for some reason it's incorrectly named in the docs but the description is OK).