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I have a Bash script on my deployment server to add server into the serverclass.conf. Could I execute the bash script from a client using the Splunk REST API?
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You could execute a bash script using the Splunk REST API.
You would have to develop a custom search command "runscript" which would run the script and use the API to run a search ("| runscript").
Link to Splunk Dev on how to create custom search commands: http://dev.splunk.com/view/python-sdk/SP-CAAAEU2
A good recent app example that use custom search command to run btool: https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/3923/
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You could execute a bash script using the Splunk REST API.
You would have to develop a custom search command "runscript" which would run the script and use the API to run a search ("| runscript").
Link to Splunk Dev on how to create custom search commands: http://dev.splunk.com/view/python-sdk/SP-CAAAEU2
A good recent app example that use custom search command to run btool: https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/3923/
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Emm.....but I would like to execute it from another server instead of search query. How can i achieve it?
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Well, if you define the command on the deployment server you can simply run something like the following from the client:
curl -d search="| runscript" https://deployment.server:8089/services/search/jobs -u admin:change
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is that work for bash script? I only see python script in the document...
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