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VINCENT BUMGARNER
VINCENT BUMGARNER
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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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Adding your app to Splunkbase


Splunkbase (splunkbase.com) is a wonderful community-supported site that Splunk put together for users and Splunk employees alike to share Splunk apps. The apps on Splunkbase are a mix of fully realized apps, add-ons of various sorts, and just example code. Splunk has good documentation for sharing apps at the following URL:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Developer/ShareYourWork

Preparing your app

Before we upload our app, we need to make sure all of our objects are shared properly, move our files to default, and configure app.conf.

Confirming sharing settings

To see sharing settings for all our objects, navigate to Manager | All configurations and set the App context option:

In the case of a self-contained app like ours, all objects should probably be set to App under Sharing. If you are building an app to share lookups or commands, the value should be Global.

Cleaning up our directories

When you upload an app, you should move everything out...

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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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