**** UPDATE - 09/16/08 ****

Thanks to more testing i have found and fixed a few critical bugs.
Updated APP version 1.6 >> here <<

• there was a static var preventing the multiple server configs from working. Should be fixed, and multiple servers in the vmware.conf should work.
• Ibm jvm’s should work - ie AIX should now work
• Added new saved searches and a few dashboards ( thanks to raffy

As usual, please let me know if you find any bugs.
I’ll type up some notes on my VMworld experince

Cheers,
e

**** UPDATE - 09/08/08 ****
Thanks to lots of folks trying it out i have found a critical bug that was preventing much of the data from getting indexed. This latest release 1.5 should have that fix and everyone should see all the wonderful VMWare data in the index.

As usual, bug me if it does not work or you have any questions.

If you have made changes to vmware/local/vmware.conf and not to the file in default you can just untar this version on top of your old one. If you are making changes to the default/vmware.conf file, i’d move that to local/vmware.conf that way when i ship updates it will not blow away your conf changes. We ship only default and not local/vmware.conf.

Splunk fans.

We have posted the our first of many preview releases. You can find them here:
Our hope is that every week or two as new features or API’s become usable that we post builds soliciting feedback.
This first post has a bunch of backend and UI performance improvements as well as some new but hidden features:

• live searching of data
• flexible roles
• scripted authentication
• event decoration ( for the xmas season )
• auditing of splunk server actions
• file system change detection
• improved (proper) sub second support
• transaction search
• new experimental simple search interface
• “where” support in search clause ( you dont need to use the “| where” anymore and can just search for foo=10 )

I’m not going to explain here what these things mean or how to find them or use them
Instead the product managers and developers will post here with ideas on what to try and what feedback we are looking for.

I’d like to thank in advance those brave few of you that have the few minutes to install these builds and give us your feedback.

e.