I was wondering if it is possible to send a message to the users currently logged into the UI as a warning that we are going to restart Splunk. Is there any way to do that? Maybe send a message that will display across the top in red, like errors and "restart required" messages do. If not, it would be a really nice idea. We have a few hundred users and it would be great to send out a warning to them somehow.
Thanks!
The bulletin board system (that makes those banners) doesn't have user controllable access points currently.
Since Splunk 6 you can now post maintenance messages on a search-head
curl -k -u admin:changeme https://localhost:8089/services/messages -d severity="warn" -d name=message -d value="This is your Splunk Admin, there will be a maintenance of this instance in 10 minutes -> 15:00 , ETA of 30 minutes -> 15:30, for updates contact me at YourFriendlyNeighborhoodAdmin@mydomain.com"
Looks like this is stored in memory so the message will be lost if the server is restarted.
The bulletin board system (that makes those banners) doesn't have user controllable access points currently.
Exists an ENH-4203
Understood. Good job, though! Maybe we can start a push to make the process easier. 🙂 Thanks again!
That was an experiment. As a customer I really hate it when companies tell me to file something again, via another means. Internally, I had to do some evil things to make it happen, so not sure you'll get that again 😛
Thanks for opening the ER for this! 🙂