Knowledge Management

Schedule automatic summary backfill?

the_wolverine
Champion

I'd like to have summary backfill run on a scheduled basis to fill in the gaps automatically. I'd probably run this during non-peak hours to reduce any impact on the servers.

How can this be done?

inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.2/Knowledge/Managesummaryindexgapsandoverlaps
Use the backfill script to add other data or fill summary index gaps
The fill_summary_index.py script backfills gaps in summary index collection by
running the saved searches that populate the summary index as they would have
been executed at their regularly scheduled times for a given time range.

check this one as well.. FYI - This document refers to 3.x versions of Splunk.
http://wiki.splunk.com/Community:Summary_Indexing_Back_Fill

thanks and best regards,
Sekar

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pradeepkumarg
Influencer

Did you get around with this?

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