@mnaish_singh_777 also I am using the free version of splunk, I just noticed the documentation you supplied was from Splunk enterprise, is this still applicable to splunk free? Thanks! ... View more

@manish_singh_777 Thanks for your reponse! Where do I upload the inputs.conf file and within this file I looked over the link you supplied and do I just need to implement: [monitor://<path>] could you please expand on this as I think this is the main problem in getting this working? Thanks again! ... View more

@manish_singh_777 would that text file need to be stored on a local machine or could it be stored on the remote Linux machine? ... View more

Hi @renjith.nair Thanks for your response! Im very new to splunk so I will need a .config file with the RESULTS=$(ssh user@server /path/to/the/script/script.sh) to identify the location of the .sh file, additionally would I need to specify the password? I looked over the links you mentioned: [script://$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/<appName>/bin/starter_script.sh] disabled = true # change to false to start the input, requires restart host = # enter hostname here index = main interval = 30 #frequency to run the script, in seconds source = my_db sourcetype = my_db_data Would the: [script://$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/<appName>/bin/starter_script.sh] Need to be replaced with: RESULTS=$(ssh user@server /path/to/the/script/script.sh)? Thanks ... View more