Splunk® Supporting Add-on for Active Directory

Deploy and Use the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory (SA-LDAPSearch)

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Platform and hardware requirements

This topic discusses the underlying requirements for running the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory.

Hardware and Operating System requirements

Hardware requirements

The Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory has memory, CPU, and disk requirements that meet standard hardware requirements for the core Splunk Enterprise platform. Deploy hardware that meets or exceeds these hardware requirements.

Operating system requirements

You can install the add-on on Splunk Enterprise instances that run a supported operating system. See the list of supported Windows and *nix operating systems.

What versions of Splunk does the add-on support?

All Splunk Enterprise search heads require Splunk Enterprise version 7.0 or later

What versions of Active Directory does the add-on support?

The Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory supports the following versions of Active Directory:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory Domain Services
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Domain Services
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory Domain Services

The add-on does not support AD Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) or other Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server types.

Distributed installation of this add-on

This table provides a quick reference for installing this add-on onto a distributed deployment of Splunk Enterprise.

Splunk instance type Supported Required Comments
Search Heads Yes Yes The host must have access to the domain controller for the domain/forest that you want to get events. The configurations you make must be identical across the search head and all search peers.
Indexers On search peers only Depends If the indexer acts as a search peer, then you must install it on all indexers that act as search peers. The search peers must have access to the domain controller for the domain/forest that you want to get events. Additionally, the configurations you make must be identical across the search head and all other search peers.
Heavy Forwarders Yes No In this configuration, you can route events from the add-on to other Splunk Enterprise instances based on the target index, or filter the data to extract only the events you want.
Universal Forwarders No No The add-on does not perform any function when you install it on this type of Splunk instance.
Light Forwarders No No The add-on does not perform any function when you install it on this type of Splunk instance. Also, light forwarder functionality has been deprecated and could be removed in a future version of the Splunk software.

Distributed deployment compatibility

This table provides a quick reference for the compatibility of this add-on with Splunk distributed deployment features.

Distributed deployment feature Supported Comments
Search Head Clusters Yes Configure your search head cluster first, then perform an installation of the add-on. The cluster replicates the configurations.
Indexer Clusters No
Deployment Server Yes You can deploy the add-on to search heads.

What are the other prerequisites?

The 'admin_all_objects' Splunk account capability

The Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory requires the admin_all_objects capability to read storage passwords. The admin user has this capability by default. If you do not want to use the admin user, then any user you do use must have this capability added to its profile.

To learn more about Splunk users and assigning capabilities, see "About configuring role-based user access" in the core Splunk Enterprise platform documentation.

Last modified on 29 May, 2019
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Supporting Add-on for Active Directory: 2.1.8, 2.2.0


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