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 for Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory

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

This version of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory was released on January 10, 2018.

What's new

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

Known issues

This version of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory has the following reported known issues and workarounds. If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been reported.


Date filed Issue number Description
2018-06-25 TAG-12595 Can's use double byte characters in ldap.conf's default stanza
2018-03-06 TAG-12534 "Test Connection" button of Configuration page in SA-LDAPSEARCH is distorted
2017-11-09 TAG-12483 SA-LDAPSEARCH Errors in Windows Infra App: The app has multiple dashboards that show socket connection error and does not display data for windows server except the default server configured
2015-08-04 TAG-9662 SA-LDAP: exclamation mark ! in binddn seems to cause issue with ldapsearch command
2015-07-02 TAG-9567 ldap search commands run more slowly in 2.x than in 1.x

Workaround:
For faster performances, downgrade SA-Ldapsearch from branch 2.* to branch 1.1* (latest version of this branch is 1.1.13)
2015-04-28 TAG-9336 ldapsearch: Misleading error message in connection test
2015-03-02 TAG-9124 SA-ldapsearch: configuration page doesn't function as expected when SSO is enabled.

Fixed issues

This version of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory fixes the following issues:


Date resolved Issue number Description
2017-12-20 TAG-12509 Password Leakage in Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Active Directory
2017-10-26 TAG-12453 SA-Ldapsearch Errors in Windows Infra Dashboard Panel
2017-10-10 TAG-12406 ldapfilter should honor credentials across all domains
2017-09-10 TAG-12454 SSL Check Box on Configuration page issue
2017-04-13 TAG-12395 launch a ldapsearch , I found twice the expected results. A user object search request will result in 2 identical events.
Last modified on 16 January, 2019
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Supporting Add-on for Active Directory: 2.1.6

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