how do you programmatically bump a search head?

[cphair]

Is there a Splunkish way (via curl or rest or something) to do the equivalent of clicking the bump button on the _bump page? It seems silly to write a script that has to generate the button click directly from that page.

[schose]

Hi,

i created a custom search command | dobump. Feel free to test it out and give feedback.

https://github.com/schose/TA-dobump

Cheers,

Andreas

[C_HIEN]

Nice ! Thank you

[David]

I was just able to do this with Javascript in a Splunk dashboard. Here's the code if anyone would like it:

function doBump(){
    $.ajax({
        url: '/en-US/_bump',
        type: 'GET',
        async: false,
        success: function(returneddata) { 
            let baseBump = returneddata; 
            let postValue = $(baseBump).find("input[type=hidden]").val();
            //console.log("Initial Bump Page", returneddata);
            $.ajax({
                url: '/en-US/_bump',
                type: 'POST',
                data: "splunk_form_key=" + postValue,
                async: false,
                success: function(returneddata) { 
                                       // console.log("Final Bump", returneddata); 
                                },
                error: function(xhr, textStatus, error) { 
                                       // console.error("Error Updating!", xhr, textStatus, error);
                            })
        },
        error: function(xhr, textStatus, error) { 
                           // console.error("Error Updating!", xhr, textStatus, error);
                    }
    })
}

[javiergn]

If you capture the HTTP requests generated when you press the bump button you can get the POST headers which I think you could probably use to replicate this behaviour via curl. I personally use the Live HTTP Headers extension to do that:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/live-http-headers/iaiioopjkcekapmldfgbebdclcnpgnlo?hl=en
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/live-http-headers/

You could also try to run a refresh for just those components that you've changed. See this post.

Hope that helps.

[cphair]

This is for JS and CSS specifically, so I don't think there's an endpoint for those components. I'll see if I can hack the POSt headers.