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Find Current logged in users in Splunk 6, query works for 5.x

somesoni2
Revered Legend

Hi All,

I have been using below query to get the list of users currently logged into my Splunk Instance.

| rest /services/authentication/httpauth-tokens | search (NOT userName="splunk-system-user") searchId="" | table userName splunk_server timeAccessed 

When I tried the same thing in Splunk 6, I am getting 0 rows. It seems for all the logged in users, the userName field is "splunk-system-user", hence no rows.(I used this clause in Splunk 5.X to exclude schedule search/splunk system accounts.

Have anyone done similar query to get list of current users in Splunk 6.

Thanks in advanced.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Not sure what was the issue. I just reinstalled Splunk and its working fine now.

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mendesjo
Path Finder

First query doesn't work..

This query works.. but it's not live, had someone log off actualy log off and still showed up, so not real time.
| rest /services/authentication/httpauth-tokens splunk_server=local |table userName|stats dc(userName) by username

Anyone have a query that actually works in real time?

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sat94541
Communicator

To find the user logged into Splunk , here are you searches you can use

| rest /services/authentication/current-context splunk_server=local|table username

or
you could also check the auth tokens
| rest /services/authentication/httpauth-tokens splunk_server=local |table userName|stats dc(userName) by userName

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Not sure what was the issue. I just reinstalled Splunk and its working fine now.

rroberts
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I ran this as well and it worked. I got userName->admin , splunk_server->192.168.2.11, timeAccessed-> yada yada.. Im on Splunk 6.0 Build 174933.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

What did it showed under uswrName field? Did it show all the users or just splunk-system-user? For me its showing all values as splunk-sys

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aelliott
Motivator

I ran this on my splunk 6.0 instance and it worked.

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