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VINCENT BUMGARNER
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Vincent Bumgarner has been designing software for over 20 years, working with many languages on nearly as many platforms. He started using Splunk in 2007 and has enjoyed watching the product evolve over the years. While working for Splunk, he has helped many companies train dozens of users to drive, extend, and administer this extremely flexible product. At least one person in every company he has worked with has asked for a book, and he hopes that this book will help fill their shelves.
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User interface resources


Most Splunk apps consist mainly of resources for the web application. The app layout for these resources is completely different from all other configurations

Views and navigation

Like .conf files, view and navigation documents take precedence in the following order:

  1. $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/users/$username/$appname/local: When a new dashboard is created, it lands here. It will remain here until the permissions are changed to App or Global.

  2. $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/$appname/local: Once a document is shared, it will be moved to this directory.

  3. $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/$appname/default: Documents can only be placed here manually. You should do this if you are going to share an app.

Unlike .conf files, these documents do not merge.

Within each of these directories, views and navigation end up under the directories data/ui/views and data/ui/nav, respectively. So, given a view foo, for the user bob, in the app app1, the initial location for the document will be:

$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/users...
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VINCENT BUMGARNER

Vincent Bumgarner has been designing software for over 20 years, working with many languages on nearly as many platforms. He started using Splunk in 2007 and has enjoyed watching the product evolve over the years. While working for Splunk, he has helped many companies train dozens of users to drive, extend, and administer this extremely flexible product. At least one person in every company he has worked with has asked for a book, and he hopes that this book will help fill their shelves.
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