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Hi
I have savedSearch which should alert every 1 min. The searchname is "myApp_Alert_1m" and the file produced is "myApp_Alert_1m.csv". My Script is kept in $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/scripts/myAlert.py
So my SavedSearch outputs this file
.. | outputcsv myApp_Alert_1m
How can I pass this filename as a parameter into "myAlert.py"?
( I tried putting into Enable Script where it shows "File name of shell script to run" with
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Found a way.
As per Documentation there are 8 arguments and "SPLUNK_ARG_4" is the "Name of report".
So the trick is to make outputcsv filename exactly same name as the Report/SavedSearch (and append by .csv etc..)
Then we can code within the script.
Within the script it would be:
CSV_FILE_IN = sys.argv[4] + '.csv'
COUNT_ALERTS = sys.argv[1]
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Found a way.
As per Documentation there are 8 arguments and "SPLUNK_ARG_4" is the "Name of report".
So the trick is to make outputcsv filename exactly same name as the Report/SavedSearch (and append by .csv etc..)
Then we can code within the script.
Within the script it would be:
CSV_FILE_IN = sys.argv[4] + '.csv'
COUNT_ALERTS = sys.argv[1]
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How can we use this variable SPLUNK_ARG_4 inside bash shell?
Is it possible to pass this variable as $i with the script?
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