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On one condition...

Posted by Elizabeth Makepeace on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - 10:47 Operational Intelligence XML, conditions, Splunk, tokens

I have found that I love creating xml code and seeing all the different capabilities it has within Splunk. While at a client recently, the client wanted to have two separate sets of dashboard inputs on one dashboard. To accomplish this, I turned to some more complex features of simple xml by creating what “appears” to be two separate dashboards; however, it’s actually just one. In creating this, my main focus areas were using “tokens” and “depends”.

I started with my Universal Input of Linux or Windows. This will be what my user sees when the dashboard initially loads.

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Creating a Simple Web Service Client in Java

Posted by Mitul Patel on Monday, April 22, 2013 - 14:04 Development Java, JAX-WS, SOA, Web Services, WSDL, XML

Even though Web Services have been around for a while (a long while at that), I somehow haven't had the opportunity to actually incorporate any into an application that I have worked on. You may be in the same boat, and so for your edification (and mine) I will walk you through creating a simple client which queries a web service using Java. Here goes nothing. The first step would be to identify a web service that you'd like to use in your application. It could be one that was created by another team in your...

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Passing Time

Posted by Rupak Pandya on Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 13:00 Operational Intelligence, Best Practices Best Practices, Big data, Machine data, props.conf, Splunk, Web Analytics, XML

System monitoring dashboards are something we are often asked to provide for our clients. Normally, this is a pretty straight forward task, but on a recent client engagement, I was presented with one requirement that was a bit out of the ordinary. This client was looking to monitor a set of ten desktops with a real-time dashboard that would display in their office. They wanted to see all of the standard metrics like cpu, memory, and disk. If there was a spike in a time chart for say % CPU Usage, they wanted to be able to click on the spike and drill down into another view. They wanted the...

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Import your WCI Content in Drupal

Posted by Hani Atalla on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 12:09 Development, Web Experience Management Drupal, Export, Import, JSON, Migration, Node, PHP, Script, wci, XML

I wanted to blog about something exciting and relative to the current hour such as "who will win the coming presidential race to the Whitehouse", especially that the first presidential debate of 2012 is looming (personally I think Jim Lehrer is pretty lame and would have preferred to see Oprah Winfrey conducting these debates.)  But my friend ...

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