https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Error-while-generating-app-manifest-file/m-p/516503#M17729 Why are you trying to create a manifest for built-in apps? It's unnecessary. Since they come with Splunk they will be installed on Splunk Cloud automatically and require no vetting. Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:04:37 GMT richgalloway 2020-08-27T13:04:37Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Error-while-generating-app-manifest-file/m-p/516405#M17728 <DIV class="p-rich_text_section">Has anyone encountered this error before while trying to create an app manifest ? This only happens for apps that do not have a version (i.e. some of the Splunk OOTB apps)<BR /><BR /></DIV><PRE>slim generate-manifest: [ERROR] The combination of group and name from the [id] stanza of app.conf (launcher) must equal the name of the app folder (.)</PRE><DIV class="p-rich_text_section">Basically, I'm running<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>/opt/splunk/bin/slim generate-manifest . &gt; app.manifest<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>on<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><STRONG>/opt/splunk/etc/apps/launcher</STRONG>, and currently, my app.conf looks like this:<BR /><BR /></DIV><PRE>[install]<BR />is_configured = true<BR />allows_disable = false[ui]<BR />label = Home<BR />is_visible = true[package]<BR />id = launcher[id]<BR />version = 0.0.0<BR />name = launcher</PRE><DIV class="p-rich_text_section">Is there something I'm missing here?<BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is also happening with the following apps:</SPAN></DIV><UL><LI><SPAN>user-prefs</SPAN></LI><LI><SPAN>SplunkLightForwarder</SPAN></LI><LI><SPAN>SplunkForwarder</SPAN></LI><LI><SPAN>splunk_internal_metrics</SPAN></LI><LI><SPAN>legacy</SPAN></LI><LI><SPAN>learned</SPAN></LI></UL><DIV class="p-rich_text_section"><SPAN>The only common theme between these app is that they do not actually have a version #. We are not seeing this issue with other Splunk apps that have versioning.<BR /><BR />Basically, I'm trying to create an app-manifest since that is one of the prerequisites for packaging an app for an AppInspect scan since we are migrating a number of our Splunk apps to Splunk Cloud. Here are the steps:&nbsp;<A href="https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.splunk.com%2FDocumentation%2FSplunkCloud%2F8.0.2006%2FDevApp%2FDeployingtheapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/8.0.2006/DevApp/Deployingtheapp</A> </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="p-rich_text_section"><SPAN>I'm specifically referencing the "Generate the app manifest" section.<BR /><BR />Now, if the apps that I listed above will end up getting shipped with our Splunk Cloud instance and won't require us to send them over to Splunk Cloud Services for vetting, then we'll proceed with excluding these from our Splunk Cloud migration package.&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN></DIV> Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:52:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Error-while-generating-app-manifest-file/m-p/516405#M17728 adnankhan5133 2020-08-27T00:52:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Error-while-generating-app-manifest-file/m-p/516503#M17729 Why are you trying to create a manifest for built-in apps? It's unnecessary. Since they come with Splunk they will be installed on Splunk Cloud automatically and require no vetting. Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:04:37 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Error-while-generating-app-manifest-file/m-p/516503#M17729 richgalloway 2020-08-27T13:04:37Z