Splunk Enterprise Security

Splunk Enterprise Security: Invalid Stanza Dev Prod

0xAli
Path Finder

Hi all,

Anyone face the below, and how to get ride of it:

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

btool will report a "Invalid key" error whenever it finds a key in a .conf file that is not present in the corresponding .spec file.  In the case of ES, there is no feature_flags.conf.spec file so everything in feature_flags.conf is treated by btool as something that should not be there.

For now, ignore the messages and consider posting a request on https://ideas.splunk.com

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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @0xAli 

These look like benign errors based on Splunk not adding these flags/stanzas to their feature flag spec file...annoying though - which app version of ES is this?

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0xAli
Path Finder

We used ES 8.5.1.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

btool will report a "Invalid key" error whenever it finds a key in a .conf file that is not present in the corresponding .spec file.  In the case of ES, there is no feature_flags.conf.spec file so everything in feature_flags.conf is treated by btool as something that should not be there.

For now, ignore the messages and consider posting a request on https://ideas.splunk.com

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0xAli
Path Finder

Ok, thanks!

Will do it.

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