Can I add website monitors directly to config file instead of using interface?

[cmahan]

I have over a hundred servers I want to monitor and using the manager to add them is exhausting. I would like to be able to make a text file and paste it into a config somewhere. Is there a proper way to do that? I did something like that on the server i am replacing, but it had some issues with random stopping and the counter on the page saying there were only 30 even though the rest were showing...

[Jarohnimo]

Deployment server isn't an option?

[MuS · Accepted solution]

Hi cmahan,

sure, you can create an inputs.conf in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/website_monitoring/local with this content:

[web_ping://Answers]
interval = 1m
title = splunk.com
url = http://answers.splunk.com
disabled = 1

[web_ping://Google]
interval = 1m
title = google.co.nz
url = https://maps.google.co.nz
disabled = 1

and it will work the same way as if you would have added them in the UI.

Hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

[swayam_phani]

Hello, Where can we give bulk url inputs from in conf files?

[LukeMurphey]

I added the ability to batch create inputs in version 1.6. It isn't the default version yet so you will need to manually select it. Let me know if this works for you.

[atari1050]

Nevermind. Found it! Thanks for adding this!!

[atari1050]

HI Luke-
How do we manually select it? I still have 300 more URLs to enter! 🙂
Thanks.

[cmahan]

Thanks! Seems to work. A couple odd points to mention... The Data inputs page only shows 30 inputs for the website availability monitor, even though when i click into it I have 148 Items. Also, It is important to input the disabled = 1 as you have above, but then click enable on the manager page. Putting the text as disabled = 0 will cause the monitor to not show up in the list.. At least those are things that I ran into personally.