Access the Edge Hub Advanced Settings page

To make advance configurations to your Splunk Edge Hub OS, turn on the advanced configuration server to access the Edge Hub Advanced Settings page.

The Splunk Edge Hub Advance Settings page is accessible to any non-authenticated user because all user interfaces are delivered to the browser as a single unauthenticated bundle. The contents of these user interfaces are not considered sensitive data, therefore security is not impacted.

Prerequisites

Complete the steps at Get started with Splunk Edge Hub OS.

Take security measures

It's your responsibility as the customer to manage your own infrastructure and environment, and implement network administration policies that prevent denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and limit web scraping. For example, you can use rate limiting to control the rate of requests to devices.

Turn on the advanced configuration server

Complete the following steps on your Splunk Edge Hub device to turn on the advanced configuration server from your Splunk Edge Hub device:

1. On your Splunk Edge Hub device, navigate to the Settings section.
2. Select Start at the bottom of the Advanced Configuration server pop-up window. The server automatically turns off after 30 minutes as a security measure.

You can also turn on the advanced configuration server from the Splunk Edge Hub mobile app:

1. In the Splunk Edge Hub mobile app, select the Splunk Edge Hub device you want to turn on advanced configuration for.
2. Navigate to Hub Settings
3. Select Enable Advanced Configuration.
4. Select Enable. The server automatically turns off after 30 minutes as a security measure.

Access the Splunk Edge Hub advanced settings page

After turning on the advanced configuration server, you can access the Splunk Edge Hub advanced settings page on a web browser:

1. On your Splunk Edge Hub device, navigate to the Settings section. Note the hostname and credentials information.
2. On a desktop computer connected to the same network as your Splunk Edge Hub OS, navigate to the hostname provided by your Splunk Edge Hub OS in a browser.
3. Enter the credentials provided by your Splunk Edge Hub OS.

In the Edge Hub Advanced Settings page, you can configure external sensors, manage IP device information, sideload firmware updates, and more.