Thanks for the additional information. Did you try connecting to Splunk Enterprise with the Python SDK through the connect function? See https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/devtools/python/sdk-python/howtousesplunkpython/howtoconnectpython. After that, you should be able to retrieve passwords following the example at https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/developapps/manageknowledge/secretstorage/secretstoragepython/#Examples. ... View more

Alternatively, if you want to avoid limts.conf all together, you can use the maxinputs setting in commands.conf. For example: [your_custom_search_command] maxinputs = 50,000 For more information about this method, see https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Commandsconf. ... View more

Hi Ketaka! I would recommend creating custom search commands with the Splunk SDK for Python. The SDK contains all of the Python classes and templates that you need to build the command. For information about creating custom search commands with the Python SDK, please see http://dev.splunk.com/view/custom-spl/SP-CAAAFFT. These docs contain an overview of creating custom search commands as well as examples from the SDK. Please let me know if this helps! -Taylor ... View more

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.0/Metrics/Search ... View more