LONG VERSION COMING SOON

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Instructions (Short version):

1) Copy the "spdash" perl script into web servers executable bin (cgi-bin) directory. 
   So the script can be executed by a browser from the URL.
2) Modify the variables at the top of the script to match your environment.
3) It is VERY important that the $STATDIR matches the same path on both checksplunk 
   and spadmin.
4) Collect the data that the dashboard needs to read by running:
     # ./checksplunk spdash

Note: Set in a cron for ever 2 min. Spdash will auto refresh every 15 seconds and 
      pick up the changes.

There are 2 pages to spdash. The Main page and the Server page. If spdash only 
sees one set of collected server files in $STATDIR it will automatically display 
the server page. If there are multiple sets of collected server files, it will 
display the main page and you can click into each server to get to the server page.

To create multiple sets of collected server files in $STATDIR, you have 2 option 
(I prefer option #1):
1) NFS mount $STATDIR from multiple splunk servers that are running checksplunk 
   so they can all write the collected server files into the same $STATDIR directory 
   over the network. If this option is used, then you really don't have to run 
   the web server on a splunk server. It can be ran from any web server that can 
   see $STATDIR. Otherwise, if splunk is running on port 80, then the web server 
   would have to be assigned to another port.
2) Run checksplunk on each splunk server and scp copy the files over to the 
   web server $STATDIR directory. Servers have to be trusted by the web server.