Getting Data In

External database to splunk lookupfile

Ravan
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I have a sql database which will update daily , How can i schedule a upload of the data from this DB to a lookupfile in splunk.

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Damien_Dallimor
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On the off chance that your SQL Database vendor is MYSQL , then you can perform lookups directly against the DB:

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/36664/splunk-mysql-connector

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