topic Re: Help Solving btool errors from alert_manager app in Getting Data In

Help Solving btool errors from alert_manager app

dpwtheitguy — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 22:15:38 GMT

All,

I've started seeing the following error message on Splunk 8.2.1 since installing alert_manager app and I'd like to clean it up.

- Error from my deployment server, from btool checks
- Version Splunk 8.2.1
- CentOS7
- I have /etc/deployment-apps/alert_manager/README/alert_manager.conf.spec there. So I assume that's what it's looking for.

# Error
08-10-2021 13:23:41.948 -0700 WARN Application [28063 MainThread] - No spec file for: /opt/splunk/etc/deployment-apps/alert_manager/default/alert_manager.conf\n
08-10-2021 13:23:41.948 -0700 WARN Application [28063 MainThread] - Invalid key in stanza [alert_manager] in /opt/splunk/etc/deployment-apps/alert_manager/default/alert_actions.conf, line 12: param.urgency (value: low).\n

# alert_manager.conf, line 12 under [settings] stanza
auto_close_info = false

# alert_manager.conf.spec, line 40, under [settings] stanza
auto_close_info = [true | false]
* Configure if informational events are automatically resolved
* Defaults to false

Any ideas on how I'd troubleshoot this?

Re: Help Solving btool errors from alert_manager app

codebuilder — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:59:22 GMT

The file needs to be named alert_manager.conf not alert_manager.conf.spec.

alert_manager.conf.spec is a reference file.

Re: Help Solving btool errors from alert_manager app

dpwtheitguy — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:26:50 GMT

Thanks for replying.

The app has both alert_manager.conf and alert_manager.conf.spec in it. Neither of which have any obvious problems that I can see. Nevertheless Splunk btool is complaining.

Re: Help Solving btool errors from alert_manager app

codebuilder — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 20:32:45 GMT

Remove the /etc/deployment-apps/alert_manager/README directory from your deployment app and try again. The .spec files are reference and contain examples with descriptions of parameter that are not valid values. That is why you are getting the errors.

Also consider putting any other configs you modified in /etc/deployment-apps/alert_manager/local
Never directly modify configs in the default directory.