Splunk® User Behavior Analytics

Install and Upgrade Splunk User Behavior Analytics

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Upgrade a distributed OEL installation of Splunk UBA

Perform the following steps to upgrade a distributed OEL installation of Splunk UBA.

OEL Leapp regularly updates its base operating system to the latest version of OEL 8.x. If you are a Splunk UBA customer using OEL, refrain from upgrading OEL until you verify the OEL version Leapp will upgrade your environment to is supported by the target UBA version. For information on the latest OEL version, see https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/oracle-linux/8 /.


Before you begin

Before upgrading Splunk UBA in a distributed deployment, confirm you meet the Upgrade Splunk UBA prerequisites. Make sure that the prerequisites are verified on each server in the distributed deployment.

If you have enabled the integration that sends UBA audit data to Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), preserve the associated certificate before upgrading. For more info on sending audit data to ES see, Send Splunk UBA audit events to Splunk ES. Use the following command to export the certificate: 

. /opt/caspida/bin/CaspidaCommonEnv.sh
sudo keytool -exportcert -alias "splunk es" -keystore $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts -rfc -file ~/splunk-es_cacert.pem

If you have enabled validation of the SSL certificate from Splunk ES, export the SSL certificate used for validating datasources from the Splunk Enterprise platform: 

. /opt/caspida/bin/CaspidaCommonEnv.sh
sudo keytool -exportcert -alias "SplunkESRootCA" -keystore $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts -rfc -file ~/SplunkESRootCA.pem

Upgrade your OEL operating system from 7.9 to 8.6

OEL Leapp updated its base operating system to OEL version 8.7. OEL 8.7 support will be available with Splunk UBA version 5.2.0, but is not supported for version 5.1.0. Splunk UBA 5.2.0 is planned for release in early 2023. If you are a Splunk UBA customer using OEL, refrain from upgrading OEL until you upgrade to Splunk UBA version 5.2.0.

Perform the following tasks on each Splunk UBA node to upgrade your OEL operating system to version 8.6:

  1. Log in to the server as the root user.


  2. Perform the initial checks of the system.
    1. Set system locale to en_US.UTF-8 inside /etc/locale.conf file: 
      LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
    2. Source the /etc/locale.conf file: 
      source /etc/locale.conf
    3. Clear any version locks: 
      sudo yum versionlock clear
  3. Switch to the caspida user and perform the following steps to archive the older version of Splunk UBA:
    1. On the management node only, stop all the caspida services: 
      /opt/caspida/bin/Caspida stop-all
    2. Run the following commands to archive the existing version of Splunk UBA:

      Replace 5.0.x with 5.0.5 or 5.0.5.1, depending on your existing version number.

      sudo mkdir -p /var/vcap/release_archives
sudo mv /opt/caspida /var/vcap/release_archives/caspida-5.0.x
sudo mkdir -p /opt/caspida && sudo chown caspida:caspida /opt/caspida
sudo chown caspida:caspida /var/vcap/release_archives
sudo chown caspida:caspida /var/vcap/release_archives/caspida-5.0.x
  4. Obtain the latest Oracle Linux 7 packages: 
    sudo yum update -y

    5. After the update completes, the following message might be displayed: 

      warning: /etc/yum.repos.d/oracle-linux-ol7.repo 
  created as /etc/yum.repos.d/oracle-linux-ol7.repo.rpmnew

    This warning appears if an oracle-linux-ol7.repo file already exists prior to updating the Oracle Linux 7 packages. The update process creates the .rpmnew file to avoid overwriting any customizations that might be in the current file.

    In this case, use the .rpmnew file to guide you in making the necessary modifications to your existing .repo file. Incorporate any new information into your .repo file. The ol7_leapp repository description must be listed in your final oracle-linux-ol7.repo file for the upgrade to proceed.
  5. Reboot the system: 
    sudo reboot
  6. Install the Leapp utility while enabling certain repositories, as follows: 
    sudo yum install -y leapp --enablerepo=ol7_leapp,ol7_latest
  7. Grant root SSH login permissions in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. 
    PermitRootLogin yes
  8. Run the preupgrade command. 
    sudo leapp preupgrade --oraclelinux
  9. After the preupgrade step completes, an answerfile is generated. Provide answers before proceeding with the upgrade. Provide answers to each question required by Leapp by either of the following methods:
    • To give confirmation of the sections of the leapp answerfile, edit the - /var/log/leapp/answerfile file and add "True" after the statement "confirm = " for all the respective sections.
    • Alternatively, use the leapp answer command to confirm all the sections individually using section names: 
      leapp answer --section question_section.confirm=answer

      For example, to confirm a True response to the question Disable pam_pkcs11 module in PAM configuration?, execute the following command: 

      leapp answer --section remove_pam_krb5_module_check.confirm=True

      The Leapp report might post the following: 

      Risk Factor: high
Title: Difference in Python versions and support in OL 8
Summary: In OL 8, there is no 'python' command. Python 3 (backward incompatible)
 is the primary Python version and Python 2 is available with limited support an
d limited set of packages. Read more here: https://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-
systems/oracle-linux/8/python/
Remediation: [hint] Please run "alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3" after upgrade
      As the example shows, for some risks, the report suggests actions you should perform after the upgrade. Therefore, the risk, although high, is not labeled as an inhibitor. The remedy can be performed later.
  10. Run the preupgrade again.
    1. After solving all the inhibitors manually and giving answers of all the sections in the /var/log/leapp/answerfile file, repeat step 8 to check if the system is ready for upgrade.
  11. Perform the upgrade: 
    sudo leapp upgrade --oraclelinux
  12. Manually reboot the system: 
    sudo reboot
  13. Update crypto policy: 
    sudo update-crypto-policies --set LEGACY
sudo reboot

Perform UBA upgrade

When upgrading the OEL version from 7.9 to 8.6 in a multi-node system, perform all the previous steps in this topic, in all the respective nodes, before completing the steps listed here only on the management node.

Ensure that Splunk UBA is running before you upgrade, then perform the following tasks to upgrade Splunk UBA in a distributed environment.

  1. Switch to caspida user and perform the following steps to archive the older version of UBA.
    1. On the management node, download the latest UBA branch build splunk-uba-software-upgrade-package_510.tgz and untar the UBA bits to /home/caspida directory: 
      $ tar xvzf /home/caspida/splunk-uba-software-upgrade-package_510.tgz
Splunk-UBA-Platform-5.1.0-20220721-000019.tgz
Splunk-UBA-Platform-5.1.0-20220721-000019.tgz.md5sum
uba-ext-pkgs-5.1.0.tgz
uba-ext-pkgs-5.1.0.tgz.md5sum
    2. Download and untar the UBA 5.1.0 Platform build inside the /opt/caspida/ folder: 
      tar xvzf /home/caspida/Splunk-UBA-Platform-5.1.0-20220721-000019.tgz -C /opt/caspida
  2. Update the list of allowed serialization classes: 
    sed -i '${s/$/,com.caspida.clients.jobmanager.JobDataParams$SourceTypes,com.caspida.clients.jobmanager.JobDataParams$SourceFiles/}' /opt/caspida/conf/uba-default.properties
  3. Run the UBA upgrade script, using the path to your archived UBA from step 3 in the Upgrade your OEL operating system from 7.9 to 8.6 section.

    The path-to-prev-uba-archive might be /var/vcap/release_archives/caspida- depending on if your archived UBA version is 5.0.5 or 5.0.5.1.

    /opt/caspida/upgrade/utils/upgrade_5.0_to_5.1.sh -p <path-to-prev-uba-archive> -e /home/caspida/uba-ext-pkgs-5.1.0.tgz
    The command installs the new Splunk UBA software, restarts Splunk UBA, and then restarts the data sources.
  4. Perform these steps to finalize the hadoop upgrade:
    1. On the UBA management node run the following commands: 
      sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfsadmin -finalizeUpgrade
      sudo service hadoop-hdfs-namenode restart
    2. Restart UBA: 
      /opt/caspida/bin/Caspida stop-all
      /opt/caspida/bin/Caspida start-all

If you have previously imported an output connector certificate, re-import the certificate. See, Configure the Splunk platform to receive data from the Splunk UBA output connector in the Send and Receive Data from the Splunk Platform manual.

Re-import the certificate used for sending UBA audit events to Splunk ES

If you have enabled the integration that sends UBA audit data to Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), and you preserved the associated certificate in the Before you begin step, you can now re-import that certificate. Use the following command to re-import the certificate: 

. /opt/caspida/bin/CaspidaCommonEnv.sh
sudo keytool -import -alias "splunk es" -keystore $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts -file ~/splunk-es_cacert.pem

Re-import the SSL certificate used for validating datasources from the Splunk Enterprise platform

If you have enabled the integration that sends UBA audit data to Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), use the following command to re-import the SSL certificate: 

. /opt/caspida/bin/CaspidaCommonEnv.sh
sudo keytool -import -alias "SplunkESRootCA" -keystore $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts -file ~/SplunkESRootCA.pem

For more information on SSL certificate validation, see Configure flag to enable or disable Splunk SSL certificate validation.

Apply security patches on your Linux operating system

Perform the following tasks to apply the latest Linux operating system security patches:

  1. Log in to the Splunk UBA server as the caspida user.
  2. Run the following command to stop Splunk UBA and all services: 
    /opt/caspida/bin/Caspida stop-all
  3. Run the following commands to check for any available security updates: 
    sudo yum updateinfo list security all
sudo yum updateinfo list sec
  4. Run the following command to resolve glibc package dependencies: 
    sudo yum update glibc-devel
  5. Run the following command to update all packages with the available security updates: 
    sudo yum update --security -y
sudo yum --security update-minimal
  6. Reboot the system: 
    sudo reboot
  7. Run the following command to start Splunk UBA and all services: 
    /opt/caspida/bin/Caspida start-all

Next steps

Verify a successful upgrade of Splunk UBA.

Last modified on 10 October, 2024
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® User Behavior Analytics: 5.1.0

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