topic Re: ERROR: failed to load index config: 'maxTotalDataSizeMB' tag required in config for in Getting Data In

ERROR: failed to load index config: 'maxTotalDataSizeMB' tag required in config for

Flynt — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:47:17 GMT

My Splunk won't start due to this error! What do I do?

ERROR: failed to load index config: 'maxTotalDataSizeMB' tag required in config for (...)

Re: ERROR: failed to load index config: 'maxTotalDataSizeMB' tag required in config for

Flynt — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:50:21 GMT

A few things to check here.

Check your indexes.conf for any typos or non-numeric characters for this field.
Check and make sure your indexes.conf does not contain a comment or any other information AFTER the number - see below

OK :

maxTotalDataSizeMB = 50000

NOT OK :

maxTotalDataSizeMB = 50000   #Some comment here

Re: ERROR: failed to load index config: 'maxTotalDataSizeMB' tag required in config for

yannK — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:02:57 GMT

see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3/admin/Aboutconfigurationfiles
for the valid comments formats.

Re: ERROR: failed to load index config: 'maxTotalDataSizeMB' tag required in config for

jrodman — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:15:42 GMT

FWIW, we can't cut configuration values generally with the # mark; for example they are needed in paths, and in regular expressions.

We could theoretically cut values that don't require # marks, but it could get rather tedious in documenting all the execeptions. In short I think it would make using and supporting splunk harder.