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Setup.xml handle save (POST) to a scripted input error

manishmenon86
New Member

So here are the details. I have an app called myapp.
under myapp/default I have a setup.xml defined like this

  <!-- Note that the path to the script uses URI encoding -->
  <block title="Enable a scripted input"
         endpoint="data/inputs/script"
         entity="%24SPLUNK_HOME%252Fetc%252Fapps%252Fmyapp%252Fbin%252Fmyscript.sh">
    <text>
      <i>Specify the configuration for a single setting in a stanza.</i>
    </text>

    <input field="interval">
      <label>Specify the interval for [$name$] </label>
      <type>text</type>
    </input>

  </block>

</setup>

I have myscript.sh under myapp/bin

#!/bin/sh
echo "Yay! You called me!"

Now when I navigate to the app, the setup page comes up. I update the interval and click save and get the following error

Encountered the following error while trying to update: Cannot find item for POST arg_name="/data/inputs/script/%24SPLUNK_HOME%252Fetc%252Fapps%252Fmyapp%252Fbin%252Fmyscript.sh/interval"

I have checked and the endpoint

https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/nobody/myapp/data/inputs/script/%24SPLUNK_HOME%252Fetc%252Fapps%25...

exists.

Not sure yet what is going on? Help please.

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1 Solution

kamlesh_vaghela
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@manishmenon86

Can you please try this?

setup.xml

<setup>
  <block title="My Scripted Input" endpoint="data/inputs/script" entity=".%252Fbin%252Fmyscript.sh">
    <input field="interval">
      <label>Polling Interval (sec)</label>
      <type>text</type>
    </input>
  </block>
</setup>

inputs.conf

[script://./bin/myscript.sh]
interval = 60
sourcetype = customsourcetype
source = customsource
disabled = 1

myscript.sh

#!/bin/sh
echo "Yay! You called me!"

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kamlesh_vaghela
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@manishmenon86

Can you please try this?

setup.xml

<setup>
  <block title="My Scripted Input" endpoint="data/inputs/script" entity=".%252Fbin%252Fmyscript.sh">
    <input field="interval">
      <label>Polling Interval (sec)</label>
      <type>text</type>
    </input>
  </block>
</setup>

inputs.conf

[script://./bin/myscript.sh]
interval = 60
sourcetype = customsourcetype
source = customsource
disabled = 1

myscript.sh

#!/bin/sh
echo "Yay! You called me!"
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manishmenon86
New Member

Thank you so much. It worked. What needs to be done to ask the good folks at Splunk to update their documentation?

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