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Advanced Splunk

By : Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
Book Image

Advanced Splunk

By: Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav

Overview of this book

Master the power of Splunk and learn the advanced strategies to get the most out of your machine data with this practical advanced guide. Make sense of the hidden data of your organization – the insight of your servers, devices, logs, traffic and clouds. Advanced Splunk shows you how. Dive deep into Splunk to find the most efficient solution to your data problems. Create the robust Splunk solutions you need to make informed decisions in big data machine analytics. From visualizations to enterprise integration, this well-organized high level guide has everything you need for Splunk mastery. Start with a complete overview of all the new features and advantages of the latest version of Splunk and the Splunk Environment. Go hands on with uploading data, search commands for basic and advanced analytics, advanced visualization techniques, and dashboard customizing. Discover how to tweak Splunk to your needs, and get a complete on Enterprise Integration of Splunk with various analytics and visualization tools. Finally, discover how to set up and use all the new features of the latest version of Splunk.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Advanced Splunk
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing Splunk apps and add-ons


Since you have learned how to create and install a Splunk application and Splunk add-on, we will now move on to how to manage apps and add-ons on Splunk Enterprise.

The following settings can be managed from the Manage Apps console of Splunk Web:

  • Permission management of Splunk apps and add-ons: Splunk apps and add-ons can be applied with specific roles and permissions, and we can also decide whether the app or add-on should be shared with other applications on Splunk. From the permission section, the object created in the application or add-on can also be shared in other apps by choosing Sharing for config file only object to all apps.

  • Enabled and disable applications and add-ons: All the applications and add-ons installed on Splunk Enterprise will be listed in the menu, and applications and add-ons can be enabled and disabled from this section.

  • Properties: The name of the Splunk application or add-on can be updated from this section. Other options such as...