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Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook

You're reading from  Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781849697842
Pages 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Play Time – Getting Data In 2. Diving into Data – Search and Report 3. Dashboards and Visualizations – Make Data Shine 4. Building an Operational Intelligence Application 5. Extending Intelligence – Data Models and Pivoting 6. Diving Deeper – Advanced Searching 7. Enriching Data – Lookups and Workflows 8. Being Proactive – Creating Alerts 9. Speed Up Intelligence – Data Summarization 10. Above and Beyond – Customization, Web Framework, REST API, and SDKs Index

Looking up inventory from an external database


In this recipe, you will install and leverage DB Connect to search an external database's product inventory table. You will then pull this data back into Splunk and turn it into a local lookup that harvests the data once per day. This product inventory table will be used in the next chapter.

Note

DB Connect has a dedicated Splunk manual that can be found at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/latest/DeployDBX.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time – Getting Data In. You should be familiar with navigating the Splunk user interface.

Additionally, it is recommended that you have one of the following supported databases installed:

  • DB2

  • MS SQL

  • MySQL

  • Oracle

  • Sybase

  • HyperSQL

  • PostgreSQL

  • H2

  • SQLite

  • Adaptive Server Enterprise v15.7 Developer Edition

DB Connect might work with other databases and data stores using the generic ODBC driver provided with the application...

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