CLI help

[magnuscowie80]

Hi everyone, does anyone know a way of running splunk admin commands via a script. I need to run ./splunk reload deploy-server via cron job

[vikramyadav]

Hi @magnuscowie80 , you can automate Splunk deployment by using ansible. You can integrate ansible and Splunk that will be much efficient and easier than the script.

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If this helps your like will be appreciated😀

[richgalloway]

If you can type it on the command line then you should be able to put it in a script.  Just be sure to include credentials with commands that need them.

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk reload deploy-server -auth user:password

[isoutamo]

The biggest issue would be, how to secure your credentials, so other cannot see those and use later on.
One way to do this is e.g. use ansible tower with callback on source node and then use ansible vault to store/crypt credentials. I suppose that there are some other ways too to do it.
r. Ismo

[magnuscowie80]

That is the issue, securing my your credentials, I am guessing am going to be learning ansible.. thanks for the reply

[isoutamo]

Just look ansible attribute no_log and use ansible vault to secure your credentials and passwords on your repositories.