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pehlke
Splunk Employee
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Just commenting here because I'm not sure that the documentation is really clear on the point: when adding a local database like sqlite, the database name should be the fully qualified path to the database file.

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ziegfried
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Correct.

Alternatively you can place the SQLite file into $SPLUNK_HOME/var/dbx (you might need to create this directory) and name it as database_name.sqlitedb, then you can use "database_name" instead of the fully qualified path.

piebob
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

thanks for this information, the documentation has been updated to clarify:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/1.0.8/DeployDBX/Addadatabaseconnection#Manage_database_conn...

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