Turn on Monitoring Console Distributed Mode via CLI or REST

[pgrigoryev]

I'm trying to automate the build of my Monitoring Console instance.

In the documentation http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.1/DMC/Deploymentsetupsteps it says that I should:

1. first add the instances being ,monitored as search peers (I've found a cli command for that)

2. then turn on the distributed mode in the GUI like this: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.1/DMC/Configureindistributedmode to populate the splunk_monitoring_console_assets.conf and assets.csv lookup (documented here: docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.1/DMC/HowtheDMCworks )

I'm wondering is there a way to automate enabling Monitoring Console Distributed Mode step?

[woodcock]

Here are the changes that this causes:

In $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/splunk_monitoring_console/local/app.conf it sets this in the [install] stanza:

is_configured = 1

In $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/distsearch.conf it sets this in the [distributedSearch:dmc_group_indexer] stanza:

default = false

In /opt/splunk/etc//apps/splunk_monitoring_console/local/data/ui/nav/default.xml it makes many changes, so it is easier to post the delta, which is this:

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>   <view name="monitoringconsole_instances" />
5c6,14
<     <view name="indexing_performance_instance" />
---
>     <collection label="Performance">
>       <view name="indexing_performance_instance" />
>       <view name="indexing_performance_deployment" />
>     </collection>
>     <collection label="Indexer Clustering">
>         <!--<a href="Clustering">Indexer Clustering: Status</a>-->
>       <view name="indexer_clustering_status" />
>       <view name="indexer_clustering_service_activity" />
>     </collection>
7a17
>       <view name="indexes_and_volumes_deployment" />
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>       <view name="index_detail_deployment" />
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>       <view name="volume_detail_deployment" />
12a25
>       <view name="http_event_collector_deployment" />
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<       <view name="data_quality" />
---
>       <view name="splunk_tcpin_performance_deployment" />
>       <view name="data_quality" />
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<     <view name="search_activity_instance" />
<     <view name="search_usage_statistics_instance" />
<     <view name="kv_store_instance" />
<     <view name="scheduler_activity_instance" />
---
>     <collection label="Activity">
>       <view name="search_activity_instance" />
>       <view name="search_activity_deployment" />
>       <view name="search_usage_statistics_instance" />
>       <view name="search_usage_statistics_deployment" />
>     </collection>
>     <collection label="Distributed Search">
>       <view name="distributed_search_instance" />
>       <view name="distributed_search_deployment" />
>     </collection>
>     <collection label="Search Head Clustering">
>       <view name="shc_status_and_conf" />
>       <view name="shc_conf_rep" />
>       <view name="shc_artifact_replication" />
>       <view name="shc_scheduler_delegation_statistics" />
>       <view name="shc_app_deployment" />
>     </collection>
>     <collection label="Scheduler Activity">
>       <view name="scheduler_activity_instance" />
>       <view name="scheduler_activity_deployment" />
>     </collection>
>     <collection label="KV Store">
>       <view name="kv_store_instance" />
>       <view name="kv_store_deployment" />
>     </collection>
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>     <view name="resource_usage_deployment" />

Here is the entirety of the /opt/splunk/etc//apps/splunk_monitoring_console/local/data/ui/nav/default.xml file:

<nav color="#3C444D">
  <view name="monitoringconsole_overview" default="true" />
  <view name="monitoringconsole_check" />
  <view name="monitoringconsole_instances" />
  <collection label="Indexing">
    <collection label="Performance">
      <view name="indexing_performance_instance" />
      <view name="indexing_performance_deployment" />
    </collection>
    <collection label="Indexer Clustering">
        <!--<a href="Clustering">Indexer Clustering: Status</a>-->
      <view name="indexer_clustering_status" />
      <view name="indexer_clustering_service_activity" />
    </collection>
    <collection label="Indexes and Volumes">
      <view name="indexes_and_volumes_instance" />
      <view name="indexes_and_volumes_deployment" />
      <view name="index_detail_instance" />
      <view name="index_detail_deployment" />
      <view name="volume_detail_instance" />
      <view name="volume_detail_deployment" />
    </collection>
    <collection label="Inputs">
      <view name="http_event_collector_instance" />
      <view name="http_event_collector_deployment" />
      <view name="splunk_tcpin_performance_instance" />
      <view name="splunk_tcpin_performance_deployment" />
      <view name="data_quality" />
    </collection>
    <collection label="License Usage">
      <view name="license_usage_today" />
      <view name="license_usage_30days" />
    </collection>
  </collection>
  <collection label="Search">
    <collection label="Activity">
      <view name="search_activity_instance" />
      <view name="search_activity_deployment" />
      <view name="search_usage_statistics_instance" />
      <view name="search_usage_statistics_deployment" />
    </collection>
    <collection label="Distributed Search">
      <view name="distributed_search_instance" />
      <view name="distributed_search_deployment" />
    </collection>
    <collection label="Search Head Clustering">
      <view name="shc_status_and_conf" />
      <view name="shc_conf_rep" />
      <view name="shc_artifact_replication" />
      <view name="shc_scheduler_delegation_statistics" />
      <view name="shc_app_deployment" />
    </collection>
    <collection label="Scheduler Activity">
      <view name="scheduler_activity_instance" />
      <view name="scheduler_activity_deployment" />
    </collection>
    <collection label="KV Store">
      <view name="kv_store_instance" />
      <view name="kv_store_deployment" />
    </collection>
  </collection>
  <collection label="Resource Usage">
    <view name="resource_usage_instance" />
    <view name="resource_usage_machine" />
    <view name="resource_usage_deployment" />
    <view name="workload_management" />
  </collection>
  <collection label="Forwarders">
    <view name="forwarder_instance" />
    <view name="forwarder_deployment" />
  </collection>
  <collection label="Settings">
    <view name="monitoringconsole_configure" />
    <view name="monitoringconsole_forwarder_setup" />
    <view name="monitoringconsole_alerts_setup" />
    <view name="monitoringconsole_overview_preferences"/>
    <view name="monitoringconsole_check_list" />
  </collection>
  <a href="search">Run a Search</a>
</nav>

[woodcock]

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