Non chef managed Splunk Server(Indexer) about chef-splunk HOT 3 CLOSED

An empty search will yield an empty set, so the @splunk_servers template variable will be empty.

This means #each won't enumerate through anything, so that section of the template will not be rendered.

Which means the Splunk agent will be configured without that set of outputs.

(That's best-case - depending on how a search is written it can also result in uncaught exceptions failing a Chef run, but I don't think this one will barf in that way...)

The good news is that this is just node data, so you could gin up a fake node entry for the not-managed-by-Chef Splunk Enterprise server and that would probably make the recipe happy.

Another option would be to add some logic to the client recipe:

  if search_results.length < 1
    search_results = [ some attributes picked up elsewhere in the cookbook ]
  end

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This is a dupe of #15

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