https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise/Unable-to-configure-LDAP-authentication/m-p/703670#M20716 <P>1. Usually (yes, I know there are rare cases where it makes sense) you configure external authentication only on SHs. Indexers should generally not run webui (DS and HFs often too)</P><P>2. Did you check _internal?</P> Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:47:57 GMT PickleRick 2024-11-06T11:47:57Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise/Unable-to-configure-LDAP-authentication/m-p/703669#M20715 <P>I am getting following error while configuring LDAP on my Splunk instances ( tried it on Splunk deployment server, Indexers, HF's), I get the same error everywhere.&nbsp; Can someone help me understand whats going wrong ?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>"Encountered the following error while trying to save: Splunkd daemon is not responding: ('Error connecting to /servicesNS/admin/config_explorer/authentication/providers/LDAP: The read operation timed out',)"</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Richy_s_0-1730889509284.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33362i43F4FD33FA985A74/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="Richy_s_0-1730889509284.png" alt="Richy_s_0-1730889509284.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I tried increasing these attributes in authentication.conf but still no luck.</P> <LI-CODE lang="markup">network_timeout = 1200 sizelimit = 10000 timelimit = 1500 web.conf - [settings] enableSplunkWebSSL = true splunkdConnectionTimeout = 1201</LI-CODE> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:59:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise/Unable-to-configure-LDAP-authentication/m-p/703669#M20715 Richy_s 2024-11-06T15:59:33Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise/Unable-to-configure-LDAP-authentication/m-p/703670#M20716 <P>1. Usually (yes, I know there are rare cases where it makes sense) you configure external authentication only on SHs. Indexers should generally not run webui (DS and HFs often too)</P><P>2. Did you check _internal?</P> Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:47:57 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Enterprise/Unable-to-configure-LDAP-authentication/m-p/703670#M20716 PickleRick 2024-11-06T11:47:57Z