Splunk Integration Question...

[Sean Alderman]

>From what I can tell, after trying it, the query string appended to the
splunk_url parameter referneces Nagios specific things...

e.g.  https://*splunk_url*/?q=search?%20*hostname*%20*
Nagios_command_description

*
So, the implication is that somehow splunk has data about nagios checks, by
name.

For my environment, splunk uses short names.  We set this up to avoid
having a mix of both short names and fqdns in the host field since most of
our splunk data is sourced from syslog which doesn't provide fqdn.  Because
of this clicking the link for this in Nagios would result in splunk on the
FQDN and producing no results.

The other issue is that at this point, splunk has no data about nagios
checks, so searching the check name, also does nothing for us.  So I hope
you can see why I'm confused about the purpose of this integration.


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Frost, Mark {BIS}
<mark.frost1 at pepsico.com>wrote:

>  Huh.   Where did those new options come from?  They weren’t in the
> cgi.cfg docs the last time I looked J.****
>
> ** **
>
> I agree, it’s not terribly clear to me what that option does, but it does
> reference “Splunk IT” which is a special Splunk package that you can use
> for Splunk benchmarking.   That still doesn’t make it clear what it’s used
> for.****
>
> ** **
>
> I see a second parameter, “splunk_url” that lets you specify the URL for
> your Splunk server.****
>
> ** **
>
> Maybe it just somehow says to pepper the logs with your Splunk URL in
> appropriate places.****
>
> ** **
>
> Mark****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Sean Alderman [mailto:salderman1 at udayton.edu]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 10, 2013 1:34 PM
> *To:* Nagios Users List
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] Splunk Integration Question...****
>
> ** **
>
> Just what's in the nagios doc on CGI.cfg. The doc is lacking about what it
> does, so I guess I'm a little curious what that config is about.****
>
> - Sean Alderman
> Senior Engineer, UDit Systems Integration****
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> On Sep 10, 2013 1:10 PM, "Frost, Mark {BIS}" <mark.frost1 at pepsico.com>
> wrote:****
>
> Sean,****
>
>  ****
>
> Can you describe what you’re doing for Splunk integration with Nagios?
> I’ve used Splunk with Nagios in a couple different ways, but I’m not aware
> of any single standard for doing so.****
>
>  ****
>
> Originally, I just had Splunk run a scheduled search, which would trigger
> a script which sent a passive check result back to a Nagios service via
> NSCA.   That way – having Nagios process passive check results from Splunk
> – was the only way I could see to do that.****
>
>  ****
>
> Recently, I played around a bit with writing scripts that made use of
> Splunk’s REST API so the checks could be run as active checks from Nagios.
> (I always prefer active checks).   I set this up for only one check, but
> once I got it working it worked pretty well.****
>
>  ****
>
> As a side note, I’m still a little on the fence about whether or not I
> really want to have Nagios find problems through Splunk and then alert on
> them or have Splunk find an alert on them directly without using Nagios at
> all…****
>
>  ****
>
> Are you referring to another way of making Splunk and Nagios talk together?
> ****
>
>  ****
>
> Mark****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* Sean Alderman [mailto:salderman1 at udayton.edu]
> *Sent:* Monday, September 09, 2013 1:12 PM
> *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* [Nagios-users] Splunk Integration Question...****
>
>  ****
>
> Greetings,****
>
>   I was hoping I might find someone who's got the splunk integration
> actively working.  I'm running Nagios Core (via EPEL) and Splunk 5.0.3 on
> OracleLinux 6.4.****
>
>    When I edit cgi.cfg and enable splunk integration, then set the splunk
> URL to https://<mysplunkserver>:8000/en-US/app/search/flastimeline, I
> notice the nagios URLs look like: https://
> <mysplunkserver>:8000/en-US/app/flashtimeline?q=search%20test1.udayton.edu%20<nagios
> plugin check>.  I have two questions...****
>
> ·         Is there a way I can make nagios use the hostname only, not the
> FQDN?  We use short names in splunk so we don't a mix of fqdn and short
> names since we use both forwarders and syslog as input.****
>
> ·         What data is this query looking for, is it expected that I
> should have my nagios log in splunk?  The <nagios plugin check> in the
> query doesn't seem useful to me, unless there's splunk data specifically
> tied to that check, and I'm hoping someone could provide an example.
> ****
>
> Kind regards,****
>
> -- ****
>
> Sean M. Alderman
> Senior Engineer, UDit Systems Integration and Engineering
> University of Dayton****
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