Splunk® Add-on for Microsoft Active Directory (Legacy)

Install and use the Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Active Directory

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As of July 7, 2019, The Splunk Add-on for Active directory has reached its end of life. Splunk is no longer developing or maintaining this product.
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Troubleshoot the Splunk Add-ons for Microsoft Active Directory

General troubleshooting

For helpful troubleshooting tips that you can apply to all add-ons, see "Troubleshoot add-ons". You can also access these support and resource links.

Data appears in the wrong index

Both the Splunk Add-ons for Microsoft Active Directory and Windows DNS expect the following indexes to be present on your indexers:

  • msad
  • perfmon
  • winevents
  • windows (for backward compatibility)
  • wineventlog (for backward compatibility)

Ensure those indexes are present by installing the add-ons into all indexers in the deployment.

Sourcetype changes for WinEventLog data

The Splunk Add-on for Windows version 5.0.x introduces changes to WinEventLog data sourcetypes, and now assigns the WinEventLog sourcetype to the following WinEventLog inputs of the Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Active Directory:

Windows AD input Sourcetype
WinEventLog://DFS Replication WinEventLog
WinEventLog://Directory Service WinEventLog
WinEventLog://File Replication Service WinEventLog
WinEventLog://Key Management Service WinEventLog

WinEventLogs are distinguished by their source.

Last modified on 14 November, 2018
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Add-on for Microsoft Active Directory (Legacy): 1.0.0, 1.0.1


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