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SA-ldapsearch ldapgroup error

Hiattech
Explorer

We migrated our Splunk indexer from Ubuntu to RHEL recently. Everything appeared to go fine except for this one add-on. Initially, we were getting a different error. I ran fapolicyd-cli add file splunk to it and that error cleared but now we get this error. 

External search command "ldapgroup" returned error code 1. Script output = "error message=HTTPError at "/opt/splunk/etc/apps/SA-ldapsearch/bin/packages/splunklib/binding.py", line 1245 : HTTP 403 Forbidden - insufficient permission to access this resources."

I went in and did chown -R on the folder (and every other folder in the line including /opt/splunk) but that didn't fix it. The files and folders are all owned by splunk and have permission to run it. I have verified the firewall ports for 636 and 389 are open. We have tried to reinstall the add-on through the web interface and get a series of similar errors indicating that it can't copy a number of .py files over. Some do get copied though and most of the folders created. I'm at a bit of a loss...

 

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Hiattech
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We ended up disabling fapolicyd and testing the install again. It worked. After it was configured, we enabled fapolicyd and is still working.

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Hiattech
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We ended up disabling fapolicyd and testing the install again. It worked. After it was configured, we enabled fapolicyd and is still working.

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The error means that during execution of that script an exception was thrown at line 1245 because it tried to connect somewhere and got 403 as a response. It doesn't have anything to do with filesystem permissions.

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