Splunk Enterprise Security

threat list download failed after multiple retries

ybahat
New Member

The splunk server is located behind a proxy, and i'm getting a lot of "threat list download failed after multiple retries" error messages.

From my logs I can see that the download is attempted directly, and not through the proxy.
What do I need to configure and where?

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shellsam
Explorer

I too have the same issue.but i had configured the proxy

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tskinnerivsec
Contributor

I am working on this myself, still getting failures after configuring proxy info. Does proxy server field need to be populated in http:\ format, or does just the ip address of the proxy suffice in that field?

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mdessus_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Just enter the hostname or ip address.
Note also there were a bug in older versions if you were using proxy authentication under certain conditions (I assume it is resolved now). Are you using authentication ?

If it does not work, look for your proxy logs in Splunk 🙂

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mdessus_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hello, you need to configure first the proxy setting in each threat (Configure / Data Enrichment / Threat list), and if needed authentication in Configure / General / Credential management. And it should work !

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