Splunk® Edge Hub OS

Setup and Configuration Guide

For documentation on other necessary components for Splunk Edge Hub, see the Splunk App for Edge Hub and AR documentation, Splunk Edge Hub mobile app documentation, and Splunk Edge Hub hardware documentation.
This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® Edge Hub OS. For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.

Create indexes for Splunk Edge Hub Software

The Splunk platform indexes 2 types of data: events and metrics. Events are records of machine data activity. Metrics are measurements captured from the technology infrastructure, security systems, and business applications in real time.

The Splunk Edge Hub Software organizes data into separate groups. These data groups determine whether an event or metric index type is used. You must create these indexes as part of the set up process. To learn more about the Splunk Edge Hub Software set up process, see Get started with Splunk Edge Hub Software.

To learn more about event processing, see Overview of event processing in the Splunk Enterprise Getting Data In manual. To learn more about metrics, see Overview of metrics in the Splunk Cloud Platform Metrics manual.

About Splunk Edge Hub Software data groups

The Splunk App for Edge Hub Software and AR provides standard dashboards that use default index names for each data group.

The following table lists the Splunk Edge Hub Software data groups, the index type they use, a description of the data groups, and their default index name:

Data group Description Index type Default index name
Sensors This is data related to internal sensors, external sensors and sensors configured through integrations, such as MQTT. Metric edge_hub_data
Anomalies This is data related to anomalies detected on sensor data collected in the Splunk Edge Hub Software by internally deployed AI models. Because Anomalies are correlated with sensor metrics, they use the same edge-hub-data index used for sensors. A new index is not required for anomalies in the standard dashboards. Metric edge_hub_data
Health This data is related to the device itself in terms of CPU usage, CPU temperature, memory, and storage availability. Metric edge_hub_status
Logs All logs generated by the Edge Hub Software are delivered by this group. Event edge_hub_logs
SNMP The SNMP polling feature captures SNMP metrics delivered by this group. To learn more about configuring SNMP, see Collect and organize managed IP device information using the SNMP protocol. Event edge_hub_snmp
OPC-UA OPC-UA tags from configured OPC_UA servers are delivered by this group. To learn more about configuring OPC-UA, see Configure Splunk Edge Hub Software to connect to an OPC server. Event edge_hub_opcua

Create indexes for Splunk Edge Hub Software

When you create indexes for Splunk Edge Hub Software, the index names will be pre-populated when you create the indexes. To learn how to create indexes on your Splunk platform, see Create custom indexes in the Splunk Enterprise Managing Indexers and Clusters of Indexers manual.

Last modified on 01 June, 2023
 

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Edge Hub OS: beta1.3.1, beta1.3.2

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