Notes from SplunkLive! Sydney 2019
I’ve had a chance to got SplunkLive! in Sydney this year.
It was freezing (by Sydney standards) 7.6 with winds which felt like -0.2 according to weatherzone app on my phone and my face.
So I wouldn’t have minded if the event turned out to be a total disaster, as long as they would have served coffee and it was warm inside, but it turned out to be quite interesting.
The below will return True/False
import socket
def test_connection(host="8.8.8.8", port=53, timeout=3):
try:
socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)
socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM).connect((host, port))
return True
except Exception as ex:
#print ex.message
return False
destination_host = "mymachine.company"
destination_port = 9997
timeout = 2
test_result = test_connection(destination_host, destination_port, timeout)
Or you can use this version to return the Exception in case connection has failed
import socket
def test_connection(host="8.8.8.8", port=53, timeout=3):
try:
socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)
socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM).connect((host, port))
return True, None
except Exception as ex:
#print ex.message
return False, ex.message
destination_host = "mymachine.company"
destination_port = 9997
timeout = 2
test_result, ex = test_connection(destination_host, destination_port, timeout)
Here is how to use Python – to Get local machine IP
import socket
def get_ip():
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
try:
# doesn't even have to be reachable
s.connect(('10.255.255.255', 1))
IP = s.getsockname()[0]
except:
IP = '127.0.0.1'
finally:
s.close()
return IP
I had to work on Splunk SSO Integration and since had never touched SSO/SAML before, I wanted to play with it a little bit on my machine. I’ve decided to use Oath0 as my IdP
This tutorial is based on SAML SSO with Auth0 as Service Provider and as an Identity Provider, but the steps that are relevant to configuring an Auth0 tenant as the Service Provider (SP) are replaced with Splunk Configuration.
Continue reading Configure Splunk SSO with Auth0 as your identity provider
