When configuring Categories and groups in the UI for the Unix app, I find nearly every host listed multiple times in the "hosts not in group" column. Many of them are listed 4-6 times.
Any idea what's causing this? Are there any differences to which I select?
When making host assignments, note the
following:
- You can only assign hosts to a group. When you do this, the Splunk App for Unix and Linux automatically assigns the hosts to the category that contains the group.
- You can assign hosts to more than one group at a time. However, each group must be a member of a separate category.
Maybe you've added hosts to multiple categories?
Definitely a browser issue. I tried last night with the exact same path. Macbook Air -> VMWare View Client -> Windows7 & Chrome. No issues this time.
No worries Alex, with so many around and I hadn't seen you since at least Feb. at the office.
Thanks Mike, just let us know if it pops back up. By the way, I just this minute realized that I saw you twice at conf, and you even said hi to me, but I didn't recognize you without your cowboy hat and/or rodeo gear! I totally apologize, mea culpa 🙂
I've went back in today, and I'm only seeing one. It seems to be likely a browser issue. I originally had this behavior while using Chrome/Win7 via VMWare VDI session. I'm not seeing this on Firefox/Fedora, nor from the same VDI session, though I have rebooted that session since. I'll try again tonight from the exact same setup.
Mike - can you open a support case? Please let me know so I can take a look at your diag. FYI, we get this data from the metadata command as such:
| metadata type=hosts `os_index`
When making host assignments, note the
following:
- You can only assign hosts to a group. When you do this, the Splunk App for Unix and Linux automatically assigns the hosts to the category that contains the group.
- You can assign hosts to more than one group at a time. However, each group must be a member of a separate category.
Maybe you've added hosts to multiple categories?
Realized I wasn't clear when stating hosts are listed twice.
When creating the group, under the "Hosts not in group" column, hostnames are listed multiple times here.