Splunk® Universal Forwarder

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Known issues

This topic lists known issues that are specific to the universal forwarder. For information on fixed issues, see Fixed issues.

Universal forwarder issues

Date filed Issue number Description
2023-03-23 SPL-237740, SPL-226003 When forwarding from an 9.0 instance with useAck enabled, ingestion stops after some time with errors: "Invalid ACK received from indexer="

Workaround:
As a workaround, disable useAck in outputs.conf on the forwarder. After disabling, indexers start to ingest data.

If you need useACK to prevent data loss, disabling autoBatch in outputs.conf can remediate the issue too, but it impacts throughput - no worse than 8.x, but no improvement for 9.0.

2023-02-22 SPL-236429 Universal forwarder download for PPCLE kernel 3.0+ is unavailable for version 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4
2022-11-03 SPL-232467 SSL UF v9.x SSL Cert Auto-populates into Windows Certificate Store

Workaround:
Make the following changes in server.conf:

Before upgrading:

Save the original setting of [sslConfig] / serverCert if it's set, and then set the following:

[sslConfig] serverCert = C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\etc\auth\new_default.pem

[kvstore] disabled = 1

The file `C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\etc\auth\new_default.pem` must not exist before the upgrade.

After upgrading: Set serverCert back to the original value and restart the universal forwarder. If it was not set before applying the workaround, it can be left unchanged as the universal forwarder will use the newly generated PEM file.

2022-10-27 SPL-232147 Debian package failed to start on armv8 agent `re-pkg-arm64`

Workaround:
Make the following changes to /etc/systemd/system/SplunkForwarder.service -

modify all ExecStartPost= with ExecStartPost=- allowing it to fail if the directory is not found. For instance change,

ExecStartPost=/bin/bash to

ExecStartPost=-/bin/bash

2022-10-25 SPL-232028, SPL-236165, SPL-236166 Windows Defender logs stop being forwarded but other Winevent logs continue to forward until UF is restarted

Workaround:
Restart the UF
2022-10-20 SPL-231793 Crashing in TcpOutEloop thread with assertion_failure="_refCount > 0"

Workaround:

autoBatch=false

2022-08-17 SPL-228646, SPL-228645 Restart is needed when AWS access key pairs rotate (w/o grace period) or other S3 config settings for Ingest Actions become invalid
2022-07-30 SPL-227653, SPL-231927 UF throws erroneous WARN for KVSTORE SSL misconfiguration on startup - server.conf//sslVerifyServerCert or "Starting migrate-kvstore."

Workaround:
It's safe to ignore the warning or you can disable the kvstore explicitly with server.conf:
[kvstore]
disabled = true
2022-06-23 SPL-226019 Warning appears in the universal forwarder whenever any spl command is run: Warning: Attempting to revert the SPLUNK_HOME ownership Warning: Executing "chown -R splunk /opt/splunkforwarder". This warning is expected and will not affect functionality.
2022-06-06 SPL-225379 Ownership of files mentioned in manifest file is splunk:splunk instead of root:root after enabling boot start as root user for initd

Workaround:
When changing UF user, manually chown SPLUNK_HOME to the new user, including first time install/upgrade, or manually enable boot-start.
2022-05-16 SPL-224264, SPL-224265 Splunk UF not starting on Debian 11 (x86_64 and arm64)
2020-11-09 SPL-197140, SPL-234386 UF failed to start on Solaris 11.3 with error: "symbol in6addr_any: referenced symbol not found"

Workaround:
1. Do not upgrade past Splunk 8.0.5 on Solaris 11.3

OR 2. Upgrade to Solaris 11.4

Last modified on 13 March, 2024
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Universal Forwarder: 9.0.2


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