Implementing Splunk (Update)

Writing a scripted alert action to process results

Another option to interface with an external system is to run a custom alert action using the results of a saved search. Splunk provides a simple example in $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/scripts/echo.sh. Let's try it out and see what we get using the following steps:

1. Create a saved search. For this test, lets do something simple and easy such as writing the following code:

   index=_internal | head 100 | stats count by sourcetype

2. Schedule the search to run at a point in the future. I set it to run every five minutes just for this test.
3. Enable Run a script and type in echo.sh:
   

The script places the output into $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/scripts/echo_output.txt ...