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Is there a way to run cmd btool check via rest?

ddrillic
Ultra Champion

@harsmarvania57 suggested to use the lovely and useful ./splunk cmd btool check command In When modifying serverclass which safeguards could help us avoid the following mistakes?

Since most of our users use Jenkins to deploy their code, is there a way to run this command via rest?

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MuS
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi ddrillic,

there might be something, because the old S.O.S app used it by using a custom command.

But why not use the https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1607/ that will provide shell access within Splunk where one can run btool for example.

Hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

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gabriel_vasseur
Contributor

I don't think https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1607/ has any chance of being installed in splunk cloud.


Someone at splunk suggested we try https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/6368/ which we had no trouble getting installed in cloud and it's working for us.

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MuS
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi ddrillic,

there might be something, because the old S.O.S app used it by using a custom command.

But why not use the https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1607/ that will provide shell access within Splunk where one can run btool for example.

Hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

ddrillic
Ultra Champion

@MuS, is there a way to restrict this app, to run only the btool command? with the Unix sudo command for example, we can restrict which commands can run...

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MuS
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Which one are you referring @ddrillic ? If it is this one https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1607/ then it is just a python script which can be modified so it only runs btool for example.

cheers, MuS

ddrillic
Ultra Champion

Very interesting @MuS.

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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

Much appreciated @MuS

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MuS
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Okay, S.O.S app had a custom command called btool in it https://answers.splunk.com/answers/104622/make-output-of-btool-some-conf-type-list-more-legible-unix... You can still download the app here https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/748/#/overview Not sure though if you can use it to do btool check but well worth to give it a try 😉

cheers, MuS

gjanders
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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

Thank you @gjanders

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wrangler2x
Motivator

One thing you can't do with it is pipe to something else. This would normally show all the inputs.conf stanza names but in the app it just shows you usage info. Here on *nix:

$ splunk cmd btool inputs list --debug | grep "\["

/opt/splunk/etc/apps/unix/local/inputs.conf                            [script:///opt/splunk/etc/apps/unix/bin/ps.sh]
/opt/splunk/etc/apps/unix/local/inputs.conf                            [script:///opt/splunk/etc/apps/unix/bin/rlog.sh]
/opt/splunk/etc/apps/unix/local/inputs.conf                            [script:///opt/splunk/etc/apps/unix/bin/time.sh]
/opt/splunk/etc/apps/unix/local/inputs.conf                            [script:///opt/splunk/etc/apps/unix/bin/top.sh]

etc...

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