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Help creating backfill script

mwdbhyat
Builder

Hi there,

Can someone help me create my backfill script? I am creating a new summary index that runs every 10min with a time range of -15m@m to -5m@m, however when I first start using this I would like the previous 12weeks worth of data to be in it as well.. Could anyone help with scripting this (noob). Does this script have to be run by an admin from the cli?

Thanks

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You will need to run the backfill command on the indexer as root/admin under the /bin folder

Try this

./splunk cmd python fill_summary_index.py -app YOUR_APP -name "SI_Populator" -et -12w@w -lt now -dedup true

Replace the following
YOUR_AAPP will need to be the name of the app your using.. It's most likely the search app
SI_Populator is the name of your populating search

The -dedup true means that it will not backfill data that's already summarized

You need to also make sure that the permissions of your populating search are not set to private

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You will need to run the backfill command on the indexer as root/admin under the /bin folder

Try this

./splunk cmd python fill_summary_index.py -app YOUR_APP -name "SI_Populator" -et -12w@w -lt now -dedup true

Replace the following
YOUR_AAPP will need to be the name of the app your using.. It's most likely the search app
SI_Populator is the name of your populating search

The -dedup true means that it will not backfill data that's already summarized

You need to also make sure that the permissions of your populating search are not set to private

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mwdbhyat
Builder

Thanks for this! Could you please explain what the -et -1t mean ?

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The -et and -lt are parameters which specify the time window it should backfill. et stands for earliest time which is 12 weeks ago on the week and -lt is latest time which is now

If this answered your question, can you please accept/like it?

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mwdbhyat
Builder

Awesome, thanks for the help!

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