Splunk 7 Essentials - Third Edition

Creating a radio input

Now, we are going to create radio inputs with dynamic searches used to drive the input value choices. This will allow users to select server and status types, and will affect the information rendered by the panels:

1. Click on Edit.
2. Select Add Input | Radio.
3. Click on the Edit icon in the newly created input.
4. In the Label field, type in Select Server:.
5. Enable Search on Change by checking the checkbox.
6. In the Token field, type server:

7. Scroll down to Static Options and click on it. In Static Options, add Name as ALL and Value as *.
8. Click on Dynamic Options, then fill in Search String, entering the following search command: ...