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 October 22, 2019.

What's new

Version 3.0.0 of the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Active Directory provides Python 3 support in Splunk Enterprise. You can run Splunk Enterprise version 8.0.0 in either Python 2 or Python 3 mode.

See the known issues and fixed issues of these release notes for other 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
2020-05-21	TAG-13030	ldapfetch will only return results if all data matches in AD using dn, otherwise it fails and doesn't alter/augment any data Workaround: fix for ldapfetch.py original 94 except ldap3.core.exceptions.LDAPNoSuchObjectResult: 95 self.logger.warning( 96 'dn="%s" domain="%s": distinguishedName="%s" does not exist', self.dn, domain, 97 search_base) 98 else: change to 94 except ldap3.core.exceptions.LDAPNoSuchObjectResult: 95 self.logger.warning( 96 'dn="%s" domain="%s": distinguishedName="%s" does not exist', self.dn, domain, 97 search_base) 98 self._augment_record(record, dn, None, attribute_names) 99 else: original 120 for name in attribute_names: 121 value = attributes.get(name,) 122 123 if isinstance(value, binary_type): change to 121 for name in attribute_names: 122 if attribues: 123 value = attributes.get(name,) 124 else: 125 value = 126 127 if isinstance(value, binary_type):

Fixed issues

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

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2019-08-22	TAG-12770, TAG-12781	format of attrs="whenCreated" differs from the same run by ldapsearch