Splunk lost its keys

Posted by Kate Engel on August 02, 2013 Operational Intelligence Splunk, Splunk DeploymentServer

You have a working Splunk environment, and decide to utilize the deployment server functionality to make the deployment of apps and management of configuration files easier.

You start by setting up the serverclass.conf file for the forwarder as the following:

[global] continueMatching = true whitelist.0 = * restartSplunkd = false [serverClass:forwarder_serverclass] whitelist.0 = *spkfwd* [serverClass:forwarder_serverclass:app:forwarder_inputs] [serverClass:forwarder_serverclass:app:forwarder_outputs]

 

Next, you set up the deploymentclient.conf on the forwarder as...

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Realizing IT Compliance and High Perfomance Site Delivery with WebCenter Sites' Site Capture

Posted by Mitul Patel on July 18, 2013 Web Experience Management Crawlers, FatWire, high availability

What is Site Capture?

Site Capture is a web-based application that integrates with WebCenter Sites to allow for the generation of a "snap-shot" of your dynamically published website. The application consists of the Site Capture Interface accessible by the "Camera icon" from the WEM admin screen. The Site Capture interface allows you to create and configure web crawlers used to "capture" the state of your website at various times.  It does this by dynamically crawling and downloading site resources (html, js, images, css, etc.) from your site and writing them to the file system based...

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Splunk App for Enterprise Security and PCI Compliance Correlation Search Drill-downs

Posted by Anshu Rastogi on July 15, 2013 Operational Intelligence correlation searches, drill-down, Enterprise Security
Introduction

Welcome! In this post we'll talk about time ranges in correlation search drill-downs in two apps, the Splunk App for Enterprise Security (ES) and The Splunk App for PCI Compliance (PCI).

Correlation Searches and Drilling Down

Okay, so what exactly are we talking about regarding correlation searches and drilling-down? Correlation searches...

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Modal Options in Drupal 7

Posted by Jon Reid on June 18, 2013 Drupal Drupal

The modal, the less obtrusive cousin of the popup window, is an effect that overlays a page element over a webpage. In contrast to the popup browser window, a modal also restricts access to the underlying page until the modal receives some interaction from the user. Why use a modal? There are several use cases including the awesome obliteration of the need to ever use a popup again. Perhaps the best reason is that a modal allows you to show and/or receive information from your end user without requiring a page reload. In short, a modal can improve usability by increasing the amount of...

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Beware: Watchdog is a Hog

Posted by Hani Atalla on June 10, 2013 Best Practices, Drupal Drupal, Syslog, Watchdog

A neat monitoring agent that will run inside your Drupal PHP engine is New Relic.   With New Relic we can monitor the PHP application performance as well as the overall health of the Drupal site in terms of under-the-hood metrics: database performance, error rate, response time, sluggish modules/APIs (it can locate these down to the line of code causing the site to spin at a zillion CPU cycle a second.  So, it is a handy tool to have...

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