Splunk® Supporting Add-on for Active Directory

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

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Release Notes for Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory

This topic contains information on new features, known issues, and updates as we version the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory.

This version of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory was released on October 19, 2018.

What's new

This release adds a new feature for Alternate Domain Name parameter in the Configuration Page of Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory (SA-LDAPSearch).

Validation will be applied to Alternate Domain Name parameter if it is not entered in UPPERCASE. A placeholder Please enter in capital letters appears as a hint during the Alternate Domain Name input.

See the known issues and fixed issues of these release notes for other product updates.

Known issues

This version of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory has the following reported known issues and workarounds. If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been reported.


Date filed Issue number Description
2015-07-02 TAG-9567 ldap search commands run more slowly in 2.x than in 1.x

Workaround:
For faster performances, downgrade SA-Ldapsearch from branch 2.* to branch 1.1* (latest version of this branch is 1.1.13)

Fixed issues

This version of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory fixes the following issues:


Date resolved Issue number Description
2018-07-16 TAG-12595 Can's use double byte characters in ldap.conf's default stanza
Last modified on 16 January, 2019
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Supporting Add-on for Active Directory: 2.1.8


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