I'd like to add and remove DB Connect configurations programatically. Has anyone tried this? I'm guessing I can just add / remove entries to the db_connections.conf, inputs.conf, and identities.conf.
For the identities.conf, if I put the password in there plain text, will Splunk hash it for me, or is there a way I can do that ahead of time?
I'd advise using DB Connect 3 if you're going to use automatic configuration. The different types of inputs are separated into different files, rising column checkpoints are separated into a different location, and SQL parsing is strictly WYSIWYG. One gotcha in 3.0.0 is that you've got to "seed" the rising column file in your script.
Found the answer, credentials can be added using curl.
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/2.4.0/DeployDBX/javaspec
Alternatively, I wonder if there's a REST api that you can use for generating the new connection. That's because typically conf file updates require a restart of splunkd while REST calls often do not.