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How Splunk run a script as an administrator?

mesutu
Explorer

Hi,

How can Splunk run a script as an administrator? In our script we use devcon.exe update command so it is needed to run as admin.

Can you help us?

Best Regards,

Thank you

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woodcock
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ivanreis
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Splunk usually run the scripts with the user created to trigger the splunkd process, and all the scripts have to be placed under $Splunk_Home/bin or under app level $Splunk_Home/etc/apps/app_name/bin.

Check this answer -> https://answers.splunk.com/answers/367944/how-to-change-the-user-splunk-runs-scripts-as.html

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