Security

How do you resolve splunk.log error messages after switching authentication from LDAP to SAML?

DennisFFM
Explorer

Hey guys,

After changing our authentication system from LDAP to SAML we get a lot of messages like this in splunkd.log:

11-07-2017 18:35:00.904 +0100 WARN UserManagerPro - AQR not supported and user=system information not found in cache

All I could find out by myself is, that "AQR" is likely to mean "Assessor qualification & requirements" and it has something to do with SAML.

Can anybody help here?

Greetings
Dennis

lycollicott
Motivator

Dennis, we've been trying to figure this out for a while now and I've had a few Webex on it. The analyst and I think it's probably a bug and probably harmless, but we might also have a temporary workaround.

We created a local splunk user called system and gave it a weak role ....those messages ended immediately. I'll keep you updated.

DennisWoerner
Explorer

Hi @lycollicott,

Thank you for your answer!
That sounds like a good workaround.

I didn't investigate this error any further, as it isn't really a 'problem'.

Do you have already an update on this?

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lycollicott
Motivator

There is nothing new to report on this, but the workaround is still in place.

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scannon4
Communicator

That is what we did as well as a workaround, lycollicott

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

So did you ever get an answer, @lycollicott?

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lycollicott
Motivator

Nothing beyond the workaround.

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lycollicott
Motivator

AQR= attributeQueryRequest

I'm actually on a webex with Splunk Support on this very thing right now.

maciep
Champion

it might be worth opening a case with Splunk Support. Looks like someone else is seeing this recently as well

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/588332/what-is-aqr-and-why-is-it-throwing-warning-message-1.html

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