• Overview
  • Overview
• User Interface
  • User Interface
    • Skinning SplunkWeb
  • Splunk toolbar for Firefox
  • Permalinks
    • Parameters
    • Unsupported Parameters
    • Examples
  • Configuring SplunkWeb
    • Skins
    • Localization
  • Scripting the Splunk search command
  • REST API
    • Messages
    • Authentication
    • Search
    • Enabling/disabling REST configuration options
    • Examples
  • SOAP API
    • How Splunk uses SOAP
    • Using the PCL to Make SOAP Requests
    • Additional PCL Search Examples
    • Creating SOAP Requests
    • SOAP Message Examples
    • SOAP error messages
• Data Inputs
  • Data Inputs
  • Input config
  • Scripted inputs
    • Configuration
    • Example
  • Understanding modules and processors
    • Default processors and pipelines
    • Pipeline data keys
    • Changing the default parsing and indexing sequence
    • Adding custom processors
  • Coding C/C++ processors
    • Writing Your Callback Function
    • Write Main
    • Add a Processor Config Stanza to Pipeline
  • Complete C Example
  • Complete C++ Example
  • Selecting events to process with a bundle
    • Create the Processor
    • Create the Module
    • Create the Bundle
    • Add an Additional Processor
• Data Outputs
  • Data Outputs
  • Customizing alert options
    • Email alerts
  • CLI for search
    • Actions
    • Default Argument
    • Parameters
    • Example
  • TCP Output
  • XML API for data output
• Management
  • Management
  • Authentication
    • Command Authentication
    • Parameters
    • Examples
    • Session Authentication
    • Examples
  • CLI for management
    • User Accounts
    • Controls
  • Configuring splunkd
    • Creating default logins on first startup
    • Changing the SSL configuration
  • XML API for management

CLI for management

User Accounts

Splunk user accounts can be created and maintained through the CLI. An Enterprise license is required for user accounts.

Actions

• add
• edit
• list
• remove

Default Argument

• username

Parameters

• username
• full-name
• password
• role
  • user
  • power
  • admin

Examples

splunk add user -username algore -full-name "Al Gore" -password pa55word
splunk edit user algore -role user

Controls

Commands for sysadmins to start and stop Splunk Server processes, and to check the syntax of configuration files for errors.

Actions

• start
• stop
• restart
• status
• verifyconfig

Contexts

• splunkd (start/stop/restart)
• splunkweb (start/stop/restart)

Default Argument

• None

Parameters

• --nodaemon (start)

--nodaemon only starts splunkd, start the GUI manually with {start splunk splunkweb} in another shell.

Examples

splunk start

splunk start --nodaemon

splunk restart splunkd

splunk stop splunkweb