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Getting webintelligence indexes to work in free version

orangecollarmei
New Member

Is there any way to get summary indexing to work in the free version? I can use the realtime and 5 min queries, but all of the summary indexes are not getting populated, because I have the free version.

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Unfortunately, there isn't a scheduler in the free version, so you can't keep them up to date. But I suppose you might be able to use the summary backfill script and run it manually to generate and fill the summary indexes.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/Managesummaryindexgapsandoverlaps#Use_t...

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orangecollarmei
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Unfortunately the backfill scripts (there are canned scripts to run the backfill summaries for webintelligence) runs the searches as nobody in the free version and can't write to the indexes...

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