Getting Data In

Help to create a new data input via REST API, plz

ventilyator
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I'm trying to configure splunk via REST API. Can anybody show working POST-request to create new data input? Just 1 complete example plz. Thanks.

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Leo
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curl -k -u admin:changeme -d "name=%2Ftmp%2Fthelog.log%0A" https://localhost:8089/services/data/inputs/monitor

After this request Splunk should index '/tmp/thelog.log'. Note that the argument is url-encoded.

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