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Why am I getting "This path does not exist or is not accessible." using Splunk Web in Splunk Light to monitor a certain folder?

jmichelgarcia — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 04:24:32 GMT

I just installed Splunk Light 6.2.5 on CentOS 7.

Using the web interface, I go to AddData screen, then Monitor, then Files and directory
I'm trying to monitor the following folder : /mnt/external_drive/<folder> and I'm getting the error :

This path does not exist or is not accessible.

the /mnt folder has 777 permissions.
the external_drive belongs to user jmg and to group jmg
user splunk (which is running splunk) belongs to group jmg
Doing su - splunk, I can navigate from / to the desired folder.

How can I debug this ?
Any advices?

Re: Why am I getting "This path does not exist or is not accessible." using Splunk Web in Splunk Light to monitor a certain folder?

jmichelgarcia — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 00:23:07 GMT

I feel dumb, but it worked using :

/mnt/<external_drive>/<folder>/*

Re: Why am I getting "This path does not exist or is not accessible." using Splunk Web in Splunk Light to moni

fahimeh — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 08:13:47 GMT

Where exactly do you see this error?

Re: Why am I getting "This path does not exist or is not accessible." using Splunk Web in Splunk Light to moni

PickleRick — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 08:58:20 GMT

This is a very very old thread. It's highly unlikely that its participants are still on this forum.

If you have a similar problem, just post a question with a description of your issue in a new thread, possibly putting a link to this thread for reference.