In this recipe, you will leverage DB Connect to search an external database's product inventory table. You will then pull this data back into Splunk and turn it into a local lookup that harvests the data once per day. This product inventory table will be used in the next chapter.
Looking up inventory from an external database
DB Connect has a dedicated Splunk manual that can be found at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/latest/DeployDBX.
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