Creating a script to gather machine performance

[AleZ214]

Hello, Ive been trying to set up a script to run every 5 minutes with cronjob in a CentOS enviorement

Heres the script and its configuration using cron

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input.conf

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This configuration is in my machine 3, configurated as UF
Already created system_metrics index in my Indexer GUI
When I try to search for "index=system_metrics sourcetype=linux_performance" in my machine 2 GUI configurated as SH theres no data, can someone help me or give me some instructions please? Thanks!

[gcusello]

Hi @AleZ214,

three questions (where the third could be the anwer of the second):

• did you checked the grants and the user running your script?
• how do you run your script, did you used the script command in inputs.conf?
• why did you created your script, isn'rt  the script to have the same thing in the Splunk_TA_nix (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/833) sufficient for you?

in other words, if you cannot use the sript in the above app, see how it's managed and copy the approach for your.

Ciao.

Giuseppe