Using Splunk 6.5.
Right when you login, you land on the 'Search app'. On this screen there's a section called 'What to Search' and lists some info such as hosts, sources, and sourcetypes. This information is all being pulled from the index=main. I've looked around and I'm not seeing any information on how to actually change it from that index to something like index=mycustomindex. That way when I login I would be presented with data and counts from my custom index versus the 'main' index which I'm not really using.
I've found articles on changing the default index with defaultDatabase = but that doesn't seem to work. Maybe I'm updating the wrong .conf file. I've even search the xml files replacing 'main' with 'mycustomindex' and it still doesn't change the pages behavior.
Has anyone else figured this out?
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