how can i use jsp file select to insert log files directly into splunk?

[tankhanandita]

I want to load a user selected file into splunk. As shown on various websites the users gets an option to upload multiple files ..... My UI also needs a form that can be used to load the file selected from user and load it in splunk.

Kindly help me with this

[tankhanandita]

How about if i want to upload a single file thru UI but it has to be a user selected file from the fileselect dialog box?

[skoelpin · Accepted solution]

It's not possible to upload multiple files at a time through the Web UI.. You will either need to do a oneshoot from the command line or you will need to install a forwarder to collect the data and forward it to the indexer

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.3/Data/MonitorfilesanddirectoriesusingtheCLI

[tankhanandita]

How can i upload a single file using file select dialog box in jsp thru java SDK?

[skoelpin]

Why not just pass a simple command to upload the files rather than hassling with the UI?

Windows

Open PowerShell or CMD as Admin

cd Splunk_Home\bin

.\splunk add oneshot C:\Program Files\AppLog\log.txt

Linux

cd Splunk_home/bin
./splunk add oneshot /var/log/applog

The oneshoot command will tell this that it should not monitor the file and that it should only upload it one time which is when you run the command

[skoelpin]

I'm assuming that you want to do a JSP file upload so end users can upload info in Splunk via a dashboard and have that data available.. This is a good idea, but this would limit the amount of data you can upload at once, and a downside would be the end user would have control of setting the sourcetype which will break all your fields since fields are relative to sourcetype..

I would suggest creating a script which can be executed when a user presses a button. This script will run the command I pasted above and have the ability to upload multiple files at once along with maintaining the correct sourcetype

[tankhanandita]

thank you so much for your help....it's working

[skoelpin]

Great, glad I could help!

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