Monitoring Splunk

How to Start or Stop splunk service using SPlunk SDK

Manvir
New Member

Does someone know show to START and/or STOP splunk using Splunk SDK? Using CLI, we can do
splunk stop
splunk start
but I am looking for its equivalent using SDK.

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lguinn2
Legend

You can't start Splunk from the SDK because when Splunk is stopped, there is no running API. If splunkd is not running, there is "no one home" for your code to talk to!

But you could write a script to execute these commands in the OS, and use your code to launch the script.

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Manvir
New Member

Thanks that helps ! I created a batch file with these commands.

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lguinn2
Legend

You can't start Splunk from the SDK because when Splunk is stopped, there is no running API. If splunkd is not running, there is "no one home" for your code to talk to!

But you could write a script to execute these commands in the OS, and use your code to launch the script.

arjun_hcl
Explorer

Is there any way to get the status of splunkd service through sdk??

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Manvir
New Member

Basically rather than just restarting, I want to first stop then clean the index and then Start.
Actually, I want to do the equivalent of this using SDK.

Splunk stop
splunk clean eventdata -index default –f
splunk start

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lpolo
Motivator

In python under splunklib.client you have the service class as well. From here you can use restart method to restart your splunkd instance.

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somesoni2
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

In java or C# SDK, you have a class "Service" which contains a method Restart.

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