Scripts

This project provides API endpoints to get my often-used scripts.

Hosted on HEROKU:

• https://scripts.mahirchavda.com
• https://scripts-mahirchavda.herokuapp.com

Endpoints:

Script Endpoint: https://scripts.mahirchavda.com/<script_name>

Currently available script_names are:

• install_miniconda
• splunk_alias

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install_miniconda: https://scripts.mahirchavda.com/install_miniconda

• returns the bash commands to install miniconda

Example to install miniconda

curl https://scripts.mahirchavda.com/install_miniconda | bash

splunk_alias: https://scripts.mahirchavda.com/splunk_alias

• returns the alias for often used splunk cli commands

To configure the alias run below command in your linux shell:

curl 'https://scripts.mahirchavda.com/splunk_alias' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

Splunk cli commands and it's alias

Purpose	Splunk CLI command	Splunk alias
Restart Splunk	/opt/splunk/bin/splunk restart	rr
Start/Stop/Restart Splunk	/opt/splunk/bin/splunk start/stop/restart	sp start/stop/restart
cd into the Splunk apps folder	cd /opt/splunk/etc/apps	app
cd into the Splunk log folder	cd /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk	log
cd into Splunk modinput folder	cd /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/modinputs	modinput
To just clean eventdata	/opt/splunk/bin/splunk clean eventdata -f	sclean
To clean all the indexed eventdata; we have to perform below steps: 1) stop splunk 2) clean indexes data 3) start splunk	1) /opt/splunk/bin/splunk stop 2) /opt/splunk/bin/splunk clean eventdata -f 3) /opt/splunk/bin/splunk start	ssclean
To clean all the indexed eventdata, remove logs and remove modinputs; we have to perform below steps: 1) stop splunk 2) clean indexes data 3) cd into log folder and remove all files 4) cd into modinput folder and remove all files 5) start splunk	1) /opt/splunk/bin/splunk stop 2) /opt/splunk/bin/splunk clean eventdata -f 3) cd /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk && rm -rf * 4) cd /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/modinputs && rm -rf * 5) /opt/splunk/bin/splunk start	sssclean
1) Stop Splunk 2) Navigate to the Splunk log folder 3) Delete all files and folder 4) Navigate to the Splunk modinput folder 5) Delete all files and folder 6) Clean all the indexed data 7) Navigate to the Splunk apps folder 8) Remove Splunk_TA_cisco-ucs app 9) Start Splunk	1) /opt/splunk/bin/splunk stop 2) cd /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk 3) rm -rf * 4) cd /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/modinputs 5) rm -rf * 6) /opt/splunk/bin/splunk clean eventdata -f 7) cd /opt/splunk/etc/apps 8) rm -rf Splunk_TA_cisco-ucs 9) /opt/splunk/bin/splunk start	sp stop && log && rm -rf * && modinput && rm -rf * && sclean && app && rm -rf Splunk_TA_cisco-ucs && sp start

The splunk_alias endpoint also supports two parameters: splunk_home and alias_suffix

param	default value	description
splunk_home	"/opt/splunk"	specify splunk home path
alias_suffix	""	specify suffix if you have mulitple splunk installed and you want to configure splunk alias for both the splunk

Example:

$ curl 'https://scripts.mahirchavda.com/splunk_alias?splunk_home=/opt/splunk2&alias_suffix=2' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

API Response:

### START splunk_alias
# Make Splunk CLI Commands Shorter
sp2_home="/opt/splunk2"
export sp2_home
alias sp2="$sp2_home/bin/splunk"
alias log2="cd $sp2_home/var/log/splunk"
alias modinput2="cd $sp2_home/var/lib/splunk/modinputs"
alias app2="cd $sp2_home/etc/apps"
alias rr2="sp2 restart"
alias sclean2="sp2 clean eventdata -f"
alias ssclean2="sp2 stop && sclean2 && sp2 start"
alias sssclean2="sp2 stop && sclean2 && log2 && rm -rf * && modinput2 && rm -rf * && sp2 start"
### END splunk_alias