Getting Data In

Collecting Windows Events via A Forwarder but Groups are not being resolved

davidwaugh
Path Finder

Hello

I am collecting Windows Events using Windows Events Forwarding. On the Windows Event Collector I have a universal forwarder installed which is sending events to the indexers.

My Stanza in input.conf is as follows:

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and contains the line

evt_resolve_ad_obj = 1

However for some events the group membership is not being translated from a SID to a user friendly group name:
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The universal forwarder is 7.2.4.0

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davidwaugh
Path Finder

Note i have looked in splunkd.log on the universal forwarder and cant see any errors.

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