Skyline on ElasticXL

Bob_Zimmerman — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:29:15 GMT

I have a relatively simple Skyline config for my personal ElasticXL lab (R82 jumbo 122 in a 2x2 cluster):

[Expert@DallasticXL-s01-01:0]# cat /home/admin/payload.json { "enabled": true, "export-targets": { "rebase": [ { "enabled": true, "name": "internal", "type": "prometheus-remote-write", "url": "http://10.0.3.23:30104/api/v1/write" } ] } } [Expert@DallasticXL-s01-01:0]# jq -c . /home/admin/payload.json {"enabled":true,"export-targets":{"rebase":[{"enabled":true,"name":"internal","type":"prometheus-remote-write","url":"http://10.0.3.23:30104/api/v1/write"}]}}

I go to the Skyline Administration Guide's directions for "Step 4 - Configure the OpenTelemetry Collector on the Check Point Server to work with the Prometheus Server" > "Procedure to work with an on-premises Prometheus Server" > "Run the configuration command to apply the payload", and it says to run this for a Scalable Platform Security Group:

g_all sklnctl export --set "$(cat /home/admin/payload.json)"

But when I run it, it definitely doesn't work:

[Expert@DallasticXL-s01-01:0]# g_all sklnctl export --set "$(cat /home/admin/payload.json)" sklnctl export --set {{ "enabled": true, "export-targets": { "rebase": [ { "enabled": true, "name": "internal", "type": "prometheus-remote-write", "url": "http://10.0.3.23:30104/api/v1/write" } ] } }}: command not found [Expert@DallasticXL-s01-01:0]# g_all sklnctl export --set "$(jq -c . /home/admin/payload.json)" sklnctl export --set {{"enabled":true,"export-targets":{"rebase":[{"enabled":true,"name":"internal","type":"prometheus-remote-write","url":"http://10.0.3.23:30104/api/v1/write"}]}}}: command not found

It's obviously running the command substitution before running the g_all, so I also tried this to get it to pass the command verbatim to the other members:

[Expert@DallasticXL-s01-01:0]# g_all sklnctl export --set "\$(jq -c . /home/admin/payload.json)" 1_01: Error: invalid character '{' looking for beginning of object key string 1_02: Error: invalid character '{' looking for beginning of object key string 2_01: Error: invalid character '{' looking for beginning of object key string 2_02: Error: invalid character '{' looking for beginning of object key string [Expert@DallasticXL-s01-01:0]# g_all sklnctl export --set '$(jq -c . /home/admin/payload.json)' 1_01: Error: invalid character '{' looking for beginning of object key string 1_02: Error: invalid character '{' looking for beginning of object key string 2_01: Error: invalid character '{' looking for beginning of object key string 2_02: Error: invalid character '{' looking for beginning of object key string

For now, I can just move to each member and run the 'sklnctl export --set "$(cat /home/admin/payload.json)"' command by hand. It's just annoying.

Since the command in the documentation doesn't work, how should this be done using g_all?

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