Connect catalog database using DB Connect

[vasanthmss]

Hi Splunkers,

• How to connect catalog database using dbconnect application?
• Is there any app provides support to load data from catalog database?

Give some sample config or share some thoughts on this.

Thanks!

[acharlieh · Accepted solution]

There's a list of supported databases that DBX supports connecting to once you provide the appropriate drivers you can then configure a connection in the web.ui.

Under the hood however, Splunk is just working with a Java server to make JDBC connections, so assuming you can provide an appropriate JDBC driver there are docs on how to define your own database type, although I think as I look through this sometime I'll have to try my hand at implementing my own com.splunk.dbx.sql.type.DatabaseType as briefly mentioned in the conf file spec.