topic Re: Unknown error message from Admin Manager in Splunk Search

Unknown error message from Admin Manager

kochera — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:16:07 GMT

Hi,

has anyone seen the error message below?

ERROR AdminManager - Argument "actual_only" is not supported by this handler.

Any ideas what may cause this?

Cheers,
Andy

Re: Unknown error message from Admin Manager

mayurr98 — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:19:13 GMT

what is the impact of this error on your system?

Re: Unknown error message from Admin Manager

kochera — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:25:35 GMT

we don't know. it just generates a lot of error messages in the splunkd.log

Re: Unknown error message from Admin Manager

mayurr98 — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:50:16 GMT

Sometimes I see errors like this if Splunk was started/stopped by root, when it normally runs as a different user. Some of the files become owned by root and then odd things don't work. In Linux, there is a simple fix. Assuming that

Splunk is installed in /opt/splunk

Splunk should run as user splunkit

you are signed in as a user with sudo privileges

cd /opt sudo chown -R splunkit splunk

Of course, the problem could be something entirely different...

Re: Unknown error message from Admin Manager

kochera — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:22:05 GMT

I checked on that already. the permissions are ok.
we get the error on all SH-cluster members although not equally spreaded.

Re: Unknown error message from Admin Manager

florho — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:26:15 GMT

We have the same issue since the upgrade to 6.6.4
Same error message.

Re: Unknown error message from Admin Manager

florho — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:58:14 GMT

@kochera we solved this issue by enabling the permissions
list_accelerate_search
for the users generating some errors.

As from what we could see, splunk was trying to see if the search had summaries, but user running the search did not have permission to check this.

Thanks to Maarten @mhoogcarspel_splunk from support for pointing in the right direction.

Re: Unknown error message from Admin Manager

mhoogcarspel_sp — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:01:01 GMT

Specifically, we found this in the audit log, you can check with this, in the timeframe of the error:

index=_audit action=accelerate_search
| stats values(info) values(action) BY user

Re: Unknown error message from Admin Manager

pj — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:01:31 GMT

This worked - thx