Release notes for Splunk Add-on for Unix and Linux

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

The Splunk Add-on for Unix and Linux was last updated in December 2017.

What's new

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

Fixed issues

Version 5.2.4 of the Splunk Add-on for Unix and Linux fixed the following issues:

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-04-17	ADDON-8472	Logic failure in rlog.sh creates duplicates when the seekpointer file cannot be updated and silently fails
2017-03-28	ADDON-13680	The dest field is not extracted for some events

Known Issues

Version 5.2.4 of the Splunk Add-on for Unix and Linux has the following known issues:

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2019-04-24	ADDON-21887	cpu.sh and vmstat.sh return aggregate results for SunOS as opposed to snapshot Workaround: Current workaround is to implement (for example): mpstat -p 1 2 as opposed to mpstat -p 1 1 to reflect the most recent non-aggregated result from the script output.
2018-08-27	ADDON-19194	Incorrect value in swapUsedPct field in FreeBSD os
2018-04-18	ADDON-17753	Truncation of COMMAND field value in UI of FreeBSD 9,10 and 11 version
2018-04-18	ADDON-17747	package.sh not working in FreeBSD 10 and FreeBSD 11
2018-04-03	ADDON-17607	openPorts.sh script indexed "Header" information into Splunk as an extra event.
2018-03-28	ADDON-17571	AWS TA and *nix TA lack spec files for eventgen.conf, which causes cluster bundle validation errors, and breaks Manage Indexes page in clustered Splunk Cloud Workaround: Splunk Cloud customers who cannot create indexes on their own due to this bug should file a support case when they need new indexes created.
2018-03-20	ADDON-17448	CPU core is not properly indexed with Splunk_TA_nix with FreeBSD11 OS
2018-03-19	ADDON-17431	Eventtype unix_runlevel_change name mismatch in eventtypes.conf and tags.conf
2017-03-13	ADDON-14093	vmstat script error on AIX
2017-03-06	ADDON-13986	cpu.sh indexed output is missing core number. Workaround: Edit contents of cpu.sh script as follows: #Need to change to always be 24Hour time with export LC_TIME=POSIX export LC_TIME='POSIX' FORMAT='{cpu=$2; pctUser=$3; pctNice=$4; pctSystem=$5; pctIowait=$6; pctSteal=$7; pctIdle=$NF}'
2016-11-10	ADDON-12085	recursive search for bash_histories is expensive