Splunk® Universal Forwarder

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Known issues

This topic lists known issues that are specific to the universal forwarder. For information on fixed issues, see Fixed issues.

Universal forwarder issues

Date filed Issue number Description
2022-11-18 SPL-233100 Splunk UF and Enterprise installations (including upgrades) may fail if the Windows Command Processor (cmd.exe) has an AutoRun script configured

Workaround:
Disable Windows AutoRun before installing the software.


2021-08-16 SPL-210384, SPL-211917 Rolling restart causes forwarders to block
2021-01-14 SPL-199409, SPL-204579, SPL-199691 Windows EventLog SIDs no longer resolving after upgrade to 8.1
2020-11-09 SPL-197140, SPL-234386 UF failed to start on Solaris 11.3 with error: "symbol in6addr_any: referenced symbol not found"

Workaround:
1. Do not upgrade past Splunk 8.0.5 on Solaris 11.3

OR 2. Upgrade to Solaris 11.4

2020-09-29 SPL-195635, SPL-202178, SPL-206477, SPL-202163, SPL-206534 Splunkd increased memory usage over time when monitoring UDP port(s) with in inputs.conf
2019-05-28 SPL-171178, SPL-167307, SPL-202078 Indexer Acknowledgement causes metric index events that do not have "_raw" fields to be duplicated

Workaround:
Indexer acknowledgement is a feature that helps prevent loss of data when forwarders send data to an indexer. Indexer acknowledgement is controlled by the Boolean useACK setting in inputs.conf and outputs.conf.

Indexer acknowledgement uses the _raw field to track completeness of delivery for each event. In some cases, when an event does not contain a valid _raw field, Splunk servers fail to determine whether the event is completely delivered and do not return acknowledgement for it, even when the event is processed successfully. As a result, the forwarder sends the same event again, leading to duplication of indexed data. This can affect metric indexes, where events with the JSON source type will not have _raw fields.

When this issue occurs, the workaround is to set useACK=false to disable indexer acknowledgement. You may want to set up multiple forwarding/HEC channels or ports with two useACK settings, to meet the needs of both kinds of source events: those that contain the _raw field and those that do not.

2018-04-10 SPL-153251 Universal Forwarder txz package cannot be installed on FreeBSD 11.1

Workaround:
1. Use pkg install instead of pkg add

OR 2. Install package by untarring tgz file to /opt/splunkforwarder

2015-04-14 SPL-99687, SPL-129637 Splunk universal forwarder is 7-10 days behind recent Windows Security and system log events.

Workaround:
To mitigate this, edit the following stanza in inputs.conf: [WinEventLog://Security] evt_resolve_ad_obj = 0.
2015-04-07 SPL-99316 Universal Forwarders stop sending data repeatedly throughout the day

Workaround:
In limits.conf, try changing file_tracking_db_threshold_mb in the [inputproc] stanza to a lower value.
2014-08-05 SPL-88396 After configuring a client name for a deployment client, the name is not shown in the Forwarder Management UI

Workaround:
Create a server class, where you can see the client name, and use that group when you add data.
Last modified on 23 May, 2023
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Universal Forwarder: 8.1.0


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