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Upgrade the Splunk Add-on for Jboss

Upgrade from version 3.3.1 or earlier to version 4.0.0 or higher

Splunk Add-on for Jboss version 4.0.0 and higher does not include urllib3, and requests, due to security reasons.

However, Splunk Enterprise architectural decisions do not allow modules introduced by previous versions of the add-on to be deleted automatically during upgrade.

Splunk administrators must manually delete the following directories from all Splunk servers where the add-on was upgraded:

  • Splunk_TA_jboss/lib/urllib3

  • Splunk_TA_jboss/lib/urllib3-*.dist-info

  • Splunk_TA_jboss/lib/requests

  • Splunk_TA_jboss/lib/requests-*.dist-info

This ensures that the urllib3 and requests modules built into Splunk Python are used.

To upgrade Splunk Add-on for Jboss from v3.1.0 to v4.0.0:

  1. In Splunk Web, navigate to Settings > Data Inputs and select Splunk Add-on for JBoss.
  2. Disable the inputs configured in your existing version of the Splunk Add-on for Jboss.
  3. Upgrade the add-on to version v4.0.0 either by clicking the Upgrade button, or by following the installation steps in the Install topic of this manual.
  4. In Splunk Web, navigate to the Splunk Add-on for Jboss.
  5. On the Splunk Add-on for Jboss configuration page, navigate to the Account tab, by clicking Configuration > Account. Configure your Jboss account, see the Set up the Splunk Add-on for JBoss topic in this manual for more information.
  6. Navigate to the Inputs page, by clicking Inputs tab.
  7. Add the account you have configured by editing the dumpAllThreads input.
  8. Enable the reconfigured dumpAllThreads input.