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
I wanted to play with SAML Authentication in Splunk and decided to use Auth0 is my SAML Identity Provider (IdP).
Since i’ve never worked with Auth0 I just followed the SAML SSO with Auth0 as Service Provider and as an Identity Provider tutorial,, which worked well, but when I tried to use Splunk as Service Provider(SP), i.e. SAML service consumer, I noticed that roles are not returned by Auth0 SAML assertion, so I had to find a way to return user roles in Auth0 together with other user’s information.
Following on the part I of this series that discussed ICMP, the focus of this post is the Elastic Heartbeat time metrics – TCP Monitors. Continue reading Understanding Elastic Heartbeat time metrics – TCP
I’ve started working with Splunk KV store for one of my recent projects. It is a robust system with an extensive API. since I was learning and documenting my fundings anyway I thought, why not put up a blog post about how to manage Splunk KV Store using REST API.
Sometimes you want to have a certain colour for the Google Calendar events. I know that you can do it manually, but what if you want it to be colour coded automatically based on some filters? In my case, it was based on a meeting organizer (my wife to be precise 🙂 ). So decided to try and colour code Google calendar events automatically using Google Apps Script.
Continue reading Colour code Google calendar events automatically using Google Apps Script
Here is how to set up Splunk HTTP Event Collector (HEC) SSL with your own certificate
Here is how to verify ownership of a site for bing in Google Domains
There are 3 options
Continue reading Verify ownership of a site for Bing in Google Domains
