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Internal change management for Splunk configs

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While the addition of several REST endpoints allow great insight into the current state of a particular configuration there is no way to use them to see what the config used to be. This app is designed to help Splunk admins bridge that gap by providing visibility and reporting for several config areas. It should be noted that this app should not be thought of as a replacement for a fully functioning version control system. That said it does provide some good value in this space. It also helps give some quick backup and restore capability for things like saved searches created by users which might not be covered by an external version system.

The configurations covered by this app include the following however the process to add additional ones is pretty easy and straight forward.

Apps - focused on permissions
Eventtypes
Indexes
Macros
Props
Roles
Saved Searches / Reports
Serverclass (Deployment Server)
Transforms
Users

Note: Unless you are on 6.2 there is a bug where if you have Splunk generate a PDF of a dashboard where a macro is in an inline search and the macro is not shared globablly the PDF generation will fail. This most impacts the Change Overview Dashboard which was designed with the idea that you would automate email delivery. Baring upgrading your environment to 6.2 the workaround is to make the macros for this dashboard all global (or convert the serarches to a saved search). The macros in question are basically all of them from the top of the macro page until you get down to and to include ct_whitelisted_dates.

The full set of instructions are included in the app.

The app has two components; both are within this app. The first component is the TA that will need to be deployed to each indexer and search head. That is located in the appserver/addons directory. The second is the visualizations contained within this app.

Once installed there are a few things you will need to adjust.
1. Adjust the number and naming convetion of your indexers and search heads in the indexer_name/count and search_head_name/count macros.
2. By default the TA will put the output of the scheduled searches (once a day) into the _audit directory. If this is adjusted you will need to adjust the ct_config_index macro.
3. The change overview dashboard is configured to show changes over the last week. If you want to adjust that simply adjust the ct_report_period macro

Release Notes

Version 1.0
Jan. 23, 2015

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