Release notes

This topic contains information on new features, known issues, and updates as we version the Splunk App for Unix and Linux.

What's new

Here's what's new in the latest version of the Splunk App for Unix and Linux:

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2015-5-19	N/A	Bug fixes.

Current known issues

The Splunk App for Unix and Linux has the following known issues:

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2015-08-12	TAG-9619, TAG-9620	The app does not currently work with search head pools or search head clusters.
N/A	NIX-467	When you install the app and point it at the indexes which contain your *nix data, it might take up to 15 seconds for that data to begin showing up in the app. This is due to lookup generation.
N/A	NIX-428	The colors in the Metrics Viewer graphs do not update correctly if you transpose sliders in the Metrics Viewer's threshold bar.
N/A	NIX-353 NIX-409	When in node view, the Hosts dashboard sometimes shows inconsistent colors with respect to the detailed view colors.
N/A	NIX-370 NIX-413	When you use Firefox to access the Splunk App for Unix and Linux, the radial graphs in the Home dashboard sometimes do not display correctly. The slices within the graphs sometimes spill out of their containers. To work around the problem, refresh the page.
N/A	APP-166	On FreeBSD systems, neither the lsof.sh scripted input nor the dashboards based on the lsof source type are functional.
N/A	N/A	On HP/UX systems, there is no way to obtain the number of threads on a system. This means that the vmstat scripted inputs will always return "?" for threads columns on HP/UX.
N/A	NIX-42	On Solaris systems, the hardware.sh scripted input sometimes returns empty values for some entries.
N/A	NIX-537	If you clone an existing alert saved search, you cannot edit the search using the "Settings: Alerts" configuration page.
N/A	NIX-536	You cannot create custom alerts using Splunk Web; you must do so with configuration files.
N/A	NIX-560	If you remove the default group, you sometimes receive an error "Unknown search command: 'all'" when you load the Home page.
N/A	NIX-320	In the Hosts page, if you do not wait for all data on a host information card to load before pinning that card, when you select another host, the original host information card does not remain pinned.
N/A	NIX-570	The app's scripted inputs do not work when the directory that they are hosted in contains spaces. This is particularly an issue with Mac OS X.
N/A	NIX-584	The full-screen NOC screen legends do not display correctly in Chrome.
N/A	NIX-587	You are not able to drill down into a specific host on the Hosts dashboard.
N/A	NIX-695	The app does not run saved searches that you create and run successfully. To work around the problem, check for the search name(s) stanza and edit $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/users/<username>/splunk_app_for_nix/local/savedsearches.conf and in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/splunk_app_for_nix/local/savedsearches.conf and set the display view and request.ui_dispatch_view attribute to blank: displayview = request.ui_dispatch_view =

Change Log (what's been fixed)

Publication date	Defect number	Description
2015-5-19	TAG-3917	Lookups that ship with the Splunk Supporting Add-on for Unix and Linux now apply to the data that they are relevant to rather than systemwide, and only export to apps that require them, rather than to all apps.
2015-5-19	TAG-3998	The app no longer generates an invalid URL when you type in a search in the search tab.
2015-5-19	TAG-4000	The Disk_Used_Exceeds_Perc_by_Host search now properly calculates the percentage of disk space overage. (TAG-4000)
2015-5-19	TAG-4210	The heat map now works properly on the Hosts View page when you select a disk.
2015-5-19	TAG-8603	The "Categories > Hosts not in <group>" page in the Settings page now populates when you have more than 4 indexes listed in the "Your Data > Unix index(es)" page.