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

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

Version 2.1.1 of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory was released on $DATE.

What's new

Here's what's new in the latest version of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory:

Publication date Defect number Description
2015-12-4 N/A Bug fixes.
2015-12-4 N/A The app has been updated to work with search head clusters.

Current known issues

The Splunk Add-on for Windows has the following known issues:

Publication date Defect number Description
Before 2015-9-18 TAG-9124 When you enable single sign-on (SSO) in Splunk Enterprise, the configuration page does not work as expected.
2015-12-4 TAG-9670 On some versions of *nix, some LDAP searches cause out-of-memory errors when they run.
2015-12-4 TAG-9662 Use of an exclamation mark in the binddn attribute can cause Invalid argument errors when you perform a search with ldapsearch.
2015-12-4 TAG-9567 After you upgrade from version 1.x to version 2.1 of the add-on, the ldapfilter command runs very slowly.
2015-12-4 TAG-9438 The ldapfilter command does not find any results when you pipe output to it from an ldapsearch command that searches a non-default domain.
2015-12-4 TAG-9336 The configuration page generates a TypeError when it cannot connect to a host during the LDAP test connection procedure.

Change log (what's been fixed)

Publication date Defect number Description
2015-12-4 TAG-9200 The add-on no longer complains that the default stanza in ldap.conf is missing when you deploy it in a distributed environment (on search heads and search peers.)
2015-12-4 TAG-9608 The add-on no longer generates an error when you specifically configure ldap.conf with the paged_size attribute (that controls the number of entries that the ldapsearch command returns on a single page of LDAP results.)
Last modified on 05 December, 2015
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Supporting Add-on for Active Directory: 2.1.2

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