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Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
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Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav

Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav is a BE in computers and has around four and a half years of experience in software development, data analytics, and information security, and around four years of experience in Splunk application development and administration. He has experience of creating Splunk applications and add-ons, managing Splunk deployments, machine learning using R and Python, and analytics and visualization using various tools, such as Tableau and QlikView. He is currently working with the information security operations team, handling the Splunk Enterprise security and cyber security of the organization. He has worked as a senior software engineer at Larsen & Toubro Technology Services in the telecom consumer electronics and semicon unit providing data analytics on a wide variety of domains, such as mobile devices, telecom infrastructure, embedded devices, Internet of Things (IOT), Machine to Machine (M2M), entertainment devices, and network and storage devices. He has also worked in the area of information, network, and cyber security in his previous organization. He has experience in OMA LWM2M for device management and remote monitoring of IOT and M2M devices and is well versed in big data and the Hadoop ecosystem. He is a passionate ethical hacker, security enthusiast, and Linux expert and has knowledge of Python, R, .NET, HTML5, CSS, and the C language. He is an avid blogger and writes about ethical hacking and cyber security on his blogs in his free time. He is a gadget freak and keeps on writing reviews on various gadgets he owns. He has participated in and has been a winner of hackathons, technical paper presentations, white papers, and so on.
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Installing the Splunk SDK


We already know that the Splunk SDK is available for most of the popular programming languages, but we will concentrate on the Splunk SDK for Python on a Windows OS in detail in this chapter.

The Splunk SDK is available for download from the Splunk website (http://dev.splunk.com/sdks) and the Splunk SDK for Python can be directly downloaded from http://dev.splunk.com/goto/sdk-python.

The SDK is for Python, and hence, Python should be already installed to use the Splunk SDK for Python. According to Splunk documentation, the Splunk SDK supports Python 2.6 or higher but does not support Python 3.

The Python SDK can be installed in Windows using Python's Setuptools or by downloading the Python SDK from the preceding link manually. The Python SDK can be installed from the Command Prompt as follows:

  1. Download Setuptools from the Python website (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools) and in Command Prompt, navigate to the Setuptools folder and type Python easy_install.py...

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Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav

Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav is a BE in computers and has around four and a half years of experience in software development, data analytics, and information security, and around four years of experience in Splunk application development and administration. He has experience of creating Splunk applications and add-ons, managing Splunk deployments, machine learning using R and Python, and analytics and visualization using various tools, such as Tableau and QlikView. He is currently working with the information security operations team, handling the Splunk Enterprise security and cyber security of the organization. He has worked as a senior software engineer at Larsen & Toubro Technology Services in the telecom consumer electronics and semicon unit providing data analytics on a wide variety of domains, such as mobile devices, telecom infrastructure, embedded devices, Internet of Things (IOT), Machine to Machine (M2M), entertainment devices, and network and storage devices. He has also worked in the area of information, network, and cyber security in his previous organization. He has experience in OMA LWM2M for device management and remote monitoring of IOT and M2M devices and is well versed in big data and the Hadoop ecosystem. He is a passionate ethical hacker, security enthusiast, and Linux expert and has knowledge of Python, R, .NET, HTML5, CSS, and the C language. He is an avid blogger and writes about ethical hacking and cyber security on his blogs in his free time. He is a gadget freak and keeps on writing reviews on various gadgets he owns. He has participated in and has been a winner of hackathons, technical paper presentations, white papers, and so on.
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