Monitoring Splunk

How to resolve messages about 'File Integrity checks' for Splunk files

sloshburch
Ultra Champion

Getting this message "File Integrity checks found files that did not match the system-provided manifest. See splunkd.log for details."
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Anyone seen this before? Any idea what it's about?

Seeing this in the splunkd.log:

09-24-2016 11:12:26.554 -0400 WARN  InstalledFilesHashChecker - An installed file="/opt/splunk/etc/log.cfg" did not pass hash-checking due to reason="content mismatch"

I'm using log-local.cfg so I'm wondering what I messed up here.

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sanderdenheijer
Explorer

Using Splunk 6.5 (clustered environment) here and also getting the messages.

At https://[your_splunk]:8089/services/server/status//installed-file-integrity you can find an overview of the files that did not match the system-provided manifest.

Looks like default files that were changed.

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rsennett_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

is there a search head cluster involved?

With Splunk... the answer is always "YES!". It just might require more regex than you're prepared for!
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sloshburch
Ultra Champion

SHC is being used and it appears this is only happening there now. Checking if the config over there is good. Running on 6.5.0.

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mbschriek
Explorer

Is there already a solution to this error? I'm getting the same messages and the splunkd.log is not informative.

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