Splunk® App for Unix and Linux (Legacy)

Install and Use the Splunk App for Unix and Linux

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On March 13, 2022, the Splunk App for Unix and Linux will reach its end of life. After this date, Splunk will no longer maintain or develop this product. The functionality in this app has migrated to a content pack in Data Integrations. Learn about the Content Pack for Unix Dashboards and Reports.The Splunk Add-on for Unix and Linux remains supported.
This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® App for Unix and Linux (Legacy). For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.
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Release notes

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

Current known issues

The Splunk App for Unix and Linux has the following known issues:

Publication date Defect number Description
2015-9-21 TAG-9210 The "Recent Headlines" page only displays one host for an alert, even if there are multiple hosts for an alert.

Fixed Issues

Publication Date Defect Number Description
2016-10-16 TAG-11930 Verify and fix sub-search truncated issue
2016-09-15 TAG-11825 Invalid URL from alert in Unix/Linux app
2016-09-20 TAG-11722 Splunk App for UNIX not obeying web.conf "static_endpoint".
2016-08-15 TAG-11720 Sanity testing for Unix App on Ivory
2016-10-07 TAG-11308 Unix: Customer has 2200+ hosts, which causes the Categories page to hang.
2016-10-10 TAG-10845 Unix app UI error - performance issue on large CDT deployment.
2016-09-19 TAG-10611 [NixApp] Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'post' of undefined.
2016-09-13 TAG-10395 Dependency_manager.py seems to have a typo
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® App for Unix and Linux (Legacy): 5.2.1


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